Remove easyspeedpc.net Pop Up Ads

Does this sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from easyspeedpc.net while browsing at web sites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The popups manage to get round the built-in pop-up blockers in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the easyspeedpc.net pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s a screenshot of the easyspeedpc.net pop-up ad when it showed up on my computer:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you apparently have some adware installed on your system that pops up the easyspeedpc.net ads. Contacting the owner of the website would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll try help you with the easyspeedpc.net removal in this blog post.

I found the easyspeedpc.net 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 anything 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.

easyspeedpc.net resolves to the 50.63.202.2 address.

So, how do you remove the easyspeedpc.net pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the easyspeedpc.net ads I had CPUMiner, PineTree and GamesDesktop installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the easyspeedpc.net pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The easyspeedpc.net domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the easyspeedpc.net ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the easyspeedpc.net pop-ups is to examine the software 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 suspicious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started observing the easyspeedpc.net pop-ups.

Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to track down and remove 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’ve developed since 2006. It’s a tool built to manually track down and remove 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 won’t require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties figuring out if a file is legitimate or adware in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful: