Does this sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from newbie-trading.com while browsing sites that commonly 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. Maybe the newbie-trading.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups turn up even when you’re not browsing?

Here is a screenshot on the newbie-trading.com pop-up from my computer:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your computer, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the newbie-trading.com ads. Don’t write angry emails to the web site you were browsing, the ads are most likely not coming from them, but from the adware on your machine. I’ll try help you to remove the newbie-trading.com pop-ups in this blog post.

Those that have been following this blog already know this, but for new visitors: A little while back I dedicated a few of my lab machines and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. I’ve been monitoring the actions on these machines to see what kinds of ads 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 noticed the newbie-trading.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

newbie-trading.com was registered on 2013-12-13. newbie-trading.com resolves to 104.155.26.16.

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

The issue with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be popped up 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 newbie-trading.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. How about your browser add-ons. 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 computer 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 guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!