Did you just get a pop-up from n.thesystemupdate.com claiming that your Java install is outdated, and ask yourself where it came from? Did the n.thesystemupdate.com ad appear to have been popped up from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the n.thesystemupdate.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here’s how the n.thesystemupdate.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my system:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you apparently have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the n.thesystemupdate.com ads. Don’t send angry emails to the website you were browsing, the ads are presumably not coming from them, but from the adware on your computer. I’ll do my best to help you with the n.thesystemupdate.com removal in this blog post.

I found the n.thesystemupdate.com pop-up on one of the lab machines 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 anything 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.

n.thesystemupdate.com resolves to the 199.115.114.52 address. n.thesystemupdate.com was registered on 2015-01-05.

So, how do you remove the n.thesystemupdate.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the n.thesystemupdate.com ads I had PriceLess, PriceHorse, OfferBoulevard and SpeedCheck installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the n.thesystemupdate.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 initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

So, what can be done? To remove the n.thesystemupdate.com pop-up ads you need to examine your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. How about your add-ons that you have in your browser. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down adware and other types of unwanted software. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your computer. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Here’s a video tutorial on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!