Remove fixupdatesnow.org Pop Up Ads

Did you just get a pop-up from fixupdatesnow.org and ask yourself where it came from? Did the fixupdatesnow.org 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 newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here’s how the newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org pop-up looked like when I got it on my machine:

newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org pop up

Does this sound like your computer, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the website you were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org pop-up in this blog post.

I found the newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org 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 site that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

fixupdatesnow.org was created on 2015-02-14. newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org resolves to the 65.111.162.137 address.

So, how do you remove the newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org ads I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

I could see this since it was kind enough to label the pop-up ad with the adware name: “Ads by saleprizes“.

Ads by saleprizes

What label did your pop-up ad have? Please share by posting a comment below.

The newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:

fixupdatesnow.org traffic rank

It seems the site has been getting a lot of traffic since mid February 2015.

The problem with this type of pop-up is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my computer. 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 newversionupdate.fixupdatesnow.org 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:

  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 add-ons you installed in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
  3. If that didn’t help, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down adware and other types of unwanted software. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your computer at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

    FreeFixer More Info link example
    An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.

Here’s a video guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!

Update 2015-05-02: Here’s another subdomain in use, called howtoupdate.fixupdatesnow.org (184.154.28.74):

howtoupdate.fixupdatesnow.org pop up

 

Update 2015-05-02: Another subdomain, netapp.fixupdatesnow.org.

netapp.fixupdatesnow.org pop up ad