Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up ads from promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz while browsing websites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to evade the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Perhaps the promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here is a screenshot on the promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz pop-up from my system:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you presumably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz ads. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz pop-ups in this blog post.

I found the promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz 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 website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz resolves to the 199.83.129.100 IP address. promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz was created on 2015-03-04.

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

The promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:

The problem with pop-ups like this one is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware. 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 promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz pop-up ads you need to check your system for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing 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 tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the promotions.yourfirstmillion.biz ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!