Sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from free.animeunzipped.com while browsing websites that usually don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to get round the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the free.animeunzipped.com pop-ups turn up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s a screenshot of the free.animeunzipped.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you probably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the free.animeunzipped.com ads. Contacting the owner of the website would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll do my best to help you with the free.animeunzipped.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Recently I dedicated some of my lab systems and deliberately installed some adware programs on them. I’ve been monitoring the actions on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements 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 computers. I first observed the free.animeunzipped.com pop-up on one of these lab computers.

free.animeunzipped.com resolves to 74.113.233.180 and animeunzipped.com to the 74.113.233.39 IP address. free.animeunzipped.com was created on 2015-05-01.

So, how do you remove the free.animeunzipped.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the free.animeunzipped.com ads I had Windows Menager, gosearch.me, Live Malware Protection and SmartComp Safe Network installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the free.animeunzipped.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with this type of pop-up is that it can be initiated 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.

So, what can be done? To remove the free.animeunzipped.com pop-up ads you need to examine your machine 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 free.animeunzipped.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 dubious in 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 free.animeunzipped.com pop-ups.

Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something 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 designed to manually track down and uninstall 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 crippled 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 troubles deciding if a file is legit or malware in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your browser with a page which contains more information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

Here’s a video tutorial on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!