Did you just get a pop-up from product-testing.html-index.xyz and wonder where it came from? Did the product-testing.html-index.xyz 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 product-testing.html-index.xyz 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 screen capture on the product-testing.html-index.xyz pop-up from my system:

(I know, lots of watermarks. Have to do it to stop the copy-cats.)

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the product-testing.html-index.xyz ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the site you currently were browsing. The advertisements are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the product-testing.html-index.xyz pop-ups in this blog post.

I found the product-testing.html-index.xyz 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 something 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.

product-testing.html-index.xyz resolves to 104.31.90.79.

So, how do you remove the product-testing.html-index.xyz pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the product-testing.html-index.xyz ads I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the product-testing.html-index.xyz pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

To remove the product-testing.html-index.xyz 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:

The first thing I would do to remove the product-testing.html-index.xyz pop-ups is to examine the software 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 suspicious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed about the same time as you started observing the product-testing.html-index.xyz pop-ups.

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

I think most users will be able to find 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’ve developed since 2006. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually track down and remove unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down 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 will not require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties 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 more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

Here’s a video tutorial on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

Did this blog post help you to remove the product-testing.html-index.xyz pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!