Did you just get a pop-up that loads data from clkoffers.com and wonder where it came from? Did the clkoffers.com ad appear to have been initiated from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the clkoffers.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here’s a screenshot of the clkoffers.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine, saying “Waiting for clkoffers.com“:

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your system that pops up the clkoffers.com ads. So don’t send angry emails to the web site you were browsing, the ads are probably not coming from them, but from the adware on your system. I’ll do my best to help you remove the clkoffers.com pop-up in this blog post.

I found the clkoffers.com pop-up on one of the lab computers where I have some adware running. I’ve talked about this in some of the previous blog posts. The adware was installed on purpose, and from time to time I check if something new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

clkoffers.com was registered on 2014-10-06. clkoffers.com resolves to 173.192.117.187.

So, how do you remove the clkoffers.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the clkoffers.com ads I had PriceHorse, SpeedCheck, PriceLess and OfferBoulevard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the clkoffers.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

Judging from Alexa’s traffic rank, clkoffers.com is getting quite a lot of traffic:

The bad news with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the clkoffers.com ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the clkoffers.com pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows OS 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 suspicious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed approximately about the same time as you started observing the clkoffers.com pop-ups.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often show up under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?

I think you will be able to track down 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 many years ago. Freefixer is a tool built to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve found 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 down like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having problems figuring out if a file is safe or adware in FreeFixer’s 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 quite useful:

Here’s a video tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the clkoffers.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!