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

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

(Sorry for the ridiculous use of watermarks. I have to do it to stop the copy-cats.)

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the onlinemillionairessecret.com ads. Contacting the owner of the web site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll try help you to remove the onlinemillionairessecret.com pop-ups in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab computers and deliberately installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been following the actions on these computers to see what kinds of adverts 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 systems. I first noticed the onlinemillionairessecret.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

onlinemillionairessecret.com resolves to 104.236.114.153. onlinemillionairessecret.com was created on 2015-04-23. The following sites are also located on the same server according to DomainTools:

• efinancehow.com
• moviedeainstall.com
• playgemollection.com

So, how do you remove the onlinemillionairessecret.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the onlinemillionairessecret.com ads I had WebShield, mystartsearch, Wajam, PhaseProfessor, FastSearch, PrimaryColor, SSFK.exe, SFKEX64.exe, YTDownloader and acengine installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the onlinemillionairessecret.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

Judging from Alexa’s traffic rank, onlinemillionairessecret.com is getting quite a lot of traffic:

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the onlinemillionairessecret.com pop-up ads you need to examine 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 that you have in your browser. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, 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 guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!