Did you just get a pop-up from joycasino.com and ponder where it came from? Did the joycasino.com ad appear to have been popped up from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the joycasino.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the big search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here’s a screen capture of the joycasino.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

If you also see this on your system, you most likely have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the joycasino.com ads. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The advertisements are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the joycasino.com removal in this blog post.

If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: Not long ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and wilfully installed some adware programs on them. I’ve been monitoring the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of adverts that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first found the joycasino.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

So, how do you remove the joycasino.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the joycasino.com ads I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and Browser Warden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the joycasino.com 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 initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the joycasino.com ads removal:

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 check the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t 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 pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!