Did you just get a pop-up from cpvtrack202.com and wonder where it came from? Did the cpvtrack202.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 cpvtrack202.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 how the cpvtrack202.com pop up tab looked like on my machine:

Does this sound like your experience, you presumably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the cpvtrack202.com ads. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the cpvtrack202.com pop-up in this blog post. That’s done by getting rid of the unwanted adware on your machine.

Those that have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but here we go: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I have been observing the actions on these machines to see what kinds of ads that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself automatically, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the machines. I first observed the cpvtrack202.com pop-up on one of these lab systems.

cpvtrack202.com resolves to the 8.36.46.65 address. cpvtrack202.com was created on 2010-11-07. So it has been around for some time.

So, how do you remove the cpvtrack202.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the cpvtrack202.com ads I had BrowserWarden, TinyWallet and BlockAndSurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the cpvtrack202.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox.

The issue with pop-ups like the one described in this blog post is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the cpvtrack202.com pop-up ads you need to check your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
2. How about your browser add-ons. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’m working on that scans your computer at lots of locations, such as browser add-ons, processes, Windows services, recently modified files, etc. If you want to get additional details about a file in the scan result, you can click the More Info link for that file and a web page will open up with a VirusTotal report which will be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Did this blog post help you to remove the cpvtrack202.com pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!