Did you just get a pop-up from newupdate.video-updater.com and ask yourself where it came from? Did the newupdate.video-updater.com ad appear to have been initiated from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the newupdate.video-updater.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 newupdate.video-updater.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my machine:

Does this sound like your machine, you probably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the newupdate.video-updater.com ads. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the newupdate.video-updater.com pop up in this blog post.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but for new visitors: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab machines and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been observing the behaviour on these machines 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 found the newupdate.video-updater.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

newupdate.video-updater.com resolves to 192.96.205.164. newupdate.video-updater.com was created on 2015-02-14.

So, how do you remove the newupdate.video-updater.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the newupdate.video-updater.com ads I had GamesDesktop, PineTree and CPUMiner installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the newupdate.video-updater.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with pop-ups like the one described in this blog post is that it can be launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the newupdate.video-updater.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 add-ons you installed in your browsers. Anything in the list 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 newupdate.video-updater.com pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!