Did you just get a pop-up or a new tab from from paid-surveys-at-home.com and wonder where it came from? Did the paid-surveys-at-home.com ad appear to have been initiated from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the paid-surveys-at-home.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 paid-surveys-at-home.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my system:

If you also see this on your computer, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the paid-surveys-at-home.com ads. Don’t flame the people that runs the site you were at, the ads are presumably not coming from that website, but from the adware that’s installed on your system. I’ll do my best to help you remove the paid-surveys-at-home.com pop-up in this blog post.

I found the paid-surveys-at-home.com pop-up on one of the lab machines 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 web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

paid-surveys-at-home.com resolves to 50.56.87.243. paid-surveys-at-home.com was created on 2004-11-10.

So, how do you remove the paid-surveys-at-home.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the paid-surveys-at-home.com ads I had PriceLess, PriceHorse, SpeedCheck and OfferBoulevard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the paid-surveys-at-home.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

SpeedCheck was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case. The pop-up was labelled “Brought to you by SpeedCheck“.

What label did your pop-up ad have? Please share in the comments area.

The problem with this type of pop-up is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. I think that adware such as BlockAndSurf, SaferSurf, CheckMeUp and NewPlayer can also be responsible for the paid-surveys-at-home.com 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 can be done? To remove the paid-surveys-at-home.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 examine the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, 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 machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your system. 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 tutorial showing FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!