Did you just get interrupted by a pop-up ad from html-1.pw?. You are not alone. I also get the html-1.pw pop-ups while browsing. Do the pop-ups also find a way round the pop-up blocker in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Then read on…

Here’s how the html-1.pw pop-up looked like when I got it on my machine:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you probably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the html-1.pw ads. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The advertisements are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the html-1.pw removal in this blog post.

I found the html-1.pw 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 something new has appeared, such as pop up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

html-1.pw was registered on 2014-11-30.

So, how do you remove the html-1.pw pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the html-1.pw ads I had TinyWallet, BrowserWarden and BlockAndSurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the html-1.pw pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Furefox.

The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove the html-1.pw pop-up ads you need to check 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 html-1.pw pop-ups is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find 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 listed 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 getting the html-1.pw pop-ups.

Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to identify 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. It’s a tool designed 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 like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having a mess figuring out if a file is legit or adware in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your web browser with a page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

Did this blog post help you to remove the html-1.pw pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!