Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up ads from mypcspeedmaximizer.com while browsing web sites that usually don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to find a way round the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the mypcspeedmaximizer.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 mypcspeedmaximizer.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my computer in a new tab in Firefox:

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you presumably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the mypcspeedmaximizer.com ads. So don’t write angry emails to the website you were browsing, the ads are presumably not coming from them, but from the adware on your machine. I’ll do my best to help you remove the mypcspeedmaximizer.com pop-up in this blog post. This is done by removing the unwanted adware from your machine.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Recently I dedicated some of my lab systems and deliberately installed some adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been observing the behaviour 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 automatically, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first spotted the mypcspeedmaximizer.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

mypcspeedmaximizer.com resolves to the 217.195.25.237 address.

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

If you are wonder if there are many others out there also getting the mypcspeedmaximizer.com ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

It appears that the site had been getting a lot of traffic since December 2014.

The bad news with popups such as this one is that it can be initiated 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.

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

The first thing I would do to remove the mypcspeedmaximizer.com pop-ups is to examine the software 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 dubious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started seeing the mypcspeedmaximizer.com pop-ups.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, 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 remove 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 about 8 years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually track down and uninstall 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 crippled like many other removal tools out there. It won’t require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having a hard time figuring out if a file is clean or adware in the FreeFixer scan result, 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 very useful:

Here’s a video tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!