Did you just get a pop-up from chachagong27.com and wonder where it came from? Did the chachagong27.com, chachagong28.com or chachagong29.com ad appear to have been popped up from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the chachagong27.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the big search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?
Here is a screenshot on the chachagong27.com pop-up from my computer:
(Sorry for the large number of watermarks. If I don’t add them, the screenshot will be used without attribution at some other blogs)
Here’s another screenshot from another similar site called chachagong23.com:
Does this sound like your machine, you apparently have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the chachagong27.com ads. So don’t write angry emails to the web site you were browsing, the adverts are most likely not coming from them, but from the adware on your computer. I’ll do my best to help you with the chachagong27.com removal in this blog post.
If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab computers and wilfully installed a few adware programs on them. I have been monitoring the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the computers. I first noticed the chachagong27.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.
chachagong27.com was created on 2015-11-12. chachagong23.com resolves to 104.31.87.127 and chachagong27.com to the 104.18.49.154 IP address.
There’s actually a bunch of domains of the same kind. Some of these are registered, some are not, but I will not be surprised if the non-registered domains will appear in pop ups too in the future:
- chachagong1.com
- chachagong2.com
- chachagong3.com
- chachagong4.com
- chachagong5.com
- chachagong6.com
- chachagong7.com
- chachagong8.com
- chachagong9.com
- chachagong10.com
- chachagong11.com
- chachagong12.com
- chachagong13.com
- chachagong14.com
- chachagong15.com
- chachagong16.com
- chachagong17.com
- chachagong18.com
- chachagong19.com
- chachagong20.com
- chachagong21.com
- chachagong22.com
- chachagong23.com
- chachagong24.com
- chachagong25.com
- chachagong26.com
- chachagong27.com
- chachagong28.com
- chachagong29.com
- chachagong30.com
- chachagong31.com
- chachagong32.com
- chachagong33.com
- chachagong34.com
- chachagong35.com
- chachagong36.com
- chachagong37.com
- chachagong38.com
- chachagong39.com
- chachagong40.com
So, how do you remove the chachagong27.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the chachagong27.com ads I had CPUMiner, PineTree and GamesDesktop installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the chachagong27.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.
The chachagong23.com domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:
The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.
So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove the chachagong27.com pop-up ads you need to review your system for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
The first thing I would do to remove the chachagong27.com pop-ups is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:
Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:
Do you see something shady listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed about the same time as you started seeing the chachagong27.com pop-ups.
Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often show up under the add-ons menu in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?
I think most users will be able to find and uninstall the adware with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I started develop about 8 years ago. It’s a tool built to manually find and remove unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.
FreeFixer’s removal feature is not locked like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having difficulties determining if a file is safe or adware in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your browser with a page which contains additional information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:
Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:
Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the chachagong27.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!