Did you just get interrupted by a pop-up ad from get20i5prizes.com? You are not alone. I also get the get20i5prizes.com pop-ups while browsing. Do the pop-ups also find a way round the pop-up blocker in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Then read on…

Here is a screen dump on the get20i5prizes.com pop-up from my machine:

If this description sounds like your experience, you probably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the get20i5prizes.com ads. Don’t write angry emails to the site you were browsing, the advertisements are almost certainly not coming from them, but from the adware on your machine. I’ll do my best to help you remove the get20i5prizes.com pop-up in this blog post.

I found the get20i5prizes.com pop-up on one of the lab systems 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 website that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

get20i5prizes.com was created on 2015-08-28. get20i5prizes.com resolves to 45.55.92.36. DomainTools says the following domains are located on the same IP:

• book-your-dea1s.com
• ecig-0ffers.net
• g0293.com

So, how do you remove the get20i5prizes.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the get20i5prizes.com ads I had SmartComp Safe Network, Live Malware Protection, Windows Menager and gosearch.me installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the get20i5prizes.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my machine. 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 get20i5prizes.com 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. You can also examine the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not 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:

   

Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing the adware that caused pop-up ads:

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the get20i5prizes.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!