Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from mrgreen.com while browsing at sites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to sidestep the built-in pop-up blockers in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the mrgreen.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from a Google search? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

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

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you apparently have some adware installed on your system that pops up the mrgreen.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the website you were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the mrgreen.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated some of my lab computers and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I have been following the actions on these systems to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself automatically, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first spotted the mrgreen.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

So, how do you remove the mrgreen.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the mrgreen.com ads I had MedPlayerNewVersion, Movie Wizard and istartsurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the mrgreen.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the mrgreen.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 examine the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something 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:

   

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

Thank you!