Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from lp.ilividnewtab.com while browsing on sites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to bypass the built-in pop-up blockers in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the lp.ilividnewtab.com pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?
Here’s a screenshot of the lp.ilividnewtab.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:
If you also see this on your system, you probably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the lp.ilividnewtab.com ads. Contacting the owner of the site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll try help you to remove the lp.ilividnewtab.com pop-ups in this blog post.
If you have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but if you are new: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab computers and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been following the actions on these machines to see what kinds of adverts that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first observed the lp.ilividnewtab.com pop-up on one of these lab systems.
lp.ilividnewtab.com was registered on 2014-08-12. lp.ilividnewtab.com resolves to the 94.31.0.55 address. The following sites have resolved to the same IP according to YouGetSignal:
- ad.lphant.com
- bearshare.com
- de.bearshare.com
- es.bearshare.com
- fr.bearshare.com
- fuzezip.com
- ilividnewtab.com
- imesh.com
- koyotesoft.com
- linkeyproject.com
- lp.bearshare.com
- lp.ilividnewtab.com
- lp.imesh.com
- lp.lphant.com
- mlstat.com
- musiclab-llc.com
- polmontventures.com
- tr.bearshare.com
- windows8startbutton.com
- www.bandoo.com
- www.bullvid.com
- www.download-free-video.com
- www.fantastigames.com
- www.ftalkchatting.com
- www.ilividnewtab.com
- www.koyotesoft.com
- www.linkeyproject.com
- www.lphant.com
- www.musiclab.co.il
- www.searchnu.com
- www.shareaza.com
- www.shareazaweb.com
The site is getting quite a lot of traffic:
Enough about that, let’s move on.
So, how do you remove the lp.ilividnewtab.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the lp.ilividnewtab.com ads I had SmartComp Safe Network, Windows Menager, Live Malware Protection and gosearch.me installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the lp.ilividnewtab.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.
The problem with pop-ups like the one described in this blog post is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.
Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the lp.ilividnewtab.com ads removal:
- Review what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
- You can also check the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
- 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:
An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.
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 lp.ilividnewtab.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!