Sound familiar? You see pop-up survey ads from guideocean.country while browsing web sites that usually don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to escape the built-in pop up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the guideocean.country pop-up surveys appear when clicking search results from a Google search? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here is how the guideocean.country survey looked like on my machine when it appeared in a new tab:

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you apparently have some adware installed on your system that pops up the guideocean.country ads. Don’t write angry emails to the web site you were browsing, the ads are presumably not coming from them, but from the adware on your system. I’ll try help you to remove the guideocean.country pop-ups in this blog post.

If you have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but if you are new: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and intentionally installed a few adware programs on them. I’ve been monitoring the actions on these computers 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 and installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first found the guideocean.country pop-up on one of these lab computers.

guideocean.country resolves to the 184.73.247.179 IP address and 3n6zz.super-promo.guideocean.country to 104.207.141.234. guideocean.country was registered on 2015-01-07.

I’ve also seen the following subdomains:

• th8zz.super-promo.guideocean.country (104.207.141.234)
• 56kzz.super-promo.guideocean.country (104.207.141.7)

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

The problem with pop-ups like this one is that it can be popped up 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 solve the problem? To remove the guideocean.country pop-up ads you need to review 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 guideocean.country pop-ups is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open 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 strange-looking listed 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 seeing the guideocean.country 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 or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think you will be able to identify 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. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually find and remove unwanted software. When you’ve identified 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 won’t require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having troubles determining if a file is legitimate or malware in the FreeFixer scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:

Here’s a video tutorial showing FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!