Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up advertisements from maxikampanjer.com while browsing web sites that in general don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to get round the built-in pop-up blockers in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the maxikampanjer.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from the Google search engine? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s how the maxikampanjer.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my machine:

If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the maxikampanjer.com ads. Contacting the owner of the website would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll do my best to help you remove the maxikampanjer.com pop-up in this blog post.

I found the maxikampanjer.com 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 site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

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So, how do you remove the maxikampanjer.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the maxikampanjer.com ads I had PrimaryColor, PhaseProfessor, Wajam, WebShield, FastSearch, SFKEX64.exe, YTDownloader, SSFK.exe and mystartsearch installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the maxikampanjer.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.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the maxikampanjer.com pop-up ads you need to examine your system 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 maxikampanjer.com pop-ups is to examine the software 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 suspicious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed about the same time as you started seeing the maxikampanjer.com pop-ups.

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

I think most users will be able to track down 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’ve developed since 2006. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually find and uninstall 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 will not require you to pay for 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 clean or unsafe in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:

Here’s a video guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!