Did you just get a pop-up from newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com and ask yourself where it came from? Did the newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com ad appear to have been launched from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the big search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here is how the newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com ad looked like on my computer:

If you also see this on your computer, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the freeupgradelive.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com removal in this blog post.

I found the newsoftready.freeupgradelive.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 anything new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com resolves to 198.7.56.109. newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com was registered on 2015-01-26.

So, how do you remove the newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com ads I had PriceHorse, PriceLess, OfferBoulevard and SpeedCheck installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the newsoftready.freeupgradelive.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Internet Explorer.

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 should done to solve the problem? To remove the freeupgradelive.com pop-up ads you need to check your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

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 check 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:

   

Here’s a video tutorial showing FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!