Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up ads from oatmealsmoke.kim while browsing web sites that generally don’t advertise in popup windows. The pop-ups manage to circumvent the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the oatmealsmoke.kim pop-ups show up when clicking search results from the Google search engine? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s how the oatmealsmoke.kim pop-up looked like when I got it on my computer:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you most likely have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the oatmealsmoke.kim ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the website you were browsing. The advertisements are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the oatmealsmoke.kim removal in this blog post.

I found the oatmealsmoke.kim 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.

oatmealsmoke.kim was registered on 2015-02-05. 54mzz.super-promo.oatmealsmoke.kim resolves to 104.207.141.237 and oatmealsmoke.kim to the 184.73.247.179 IP address.

So, how do you remove the oatmealsmoke.kim pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the oatmealsmoke.kim ads I had CheckMeUp installed. I removed it with FreeFixer and that stopped the oatmealsmoke.kim pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with pop-ups like this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my computer. I think that adware such as NewPlayer, BlockAndSurf, SpeedCheck, SaferSurf and Unisales can also be responsible for the oatmealsmoke.kim popups. And there are probably other variants too. 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 oatmealsmoke.kim pop-up ads you need to review your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove the oatmealsmoke.kim pop-ups is to examine the programs 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 oatmealsmoke.kim pop-ups.

Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?

I think you will be able to identify 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 many years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually identify 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 problems determining if a file is safe or adware in FreeFixer’s scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your web browser with a page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:

Here’s a video guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!