Did you just get a pop-up from selectgo.net and wonder where it came from? Did the selectgo.net 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 selectgo.net pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here’s a screenshot of the selectgo.net pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

I had some problems capturing a screenshot since the pop-up usually appeared quickly and then disappeared. At times, selectgo.net can also be seen in the status bar of the browser, saying “Waiting for static.selectgo00.selectgo.net“:

Here’s a screenshot from when I captured selectgo.net in a network monitor:

I’ve also spotted ad.selectgo00.selectgo.net in the network log.

Does this sound like what you see your system, you most likely have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the selectgo.net ads. Contacting the owner of the web site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll do my best to help you with the selectgo.net removal in this blog post.

I found the selectgo.net 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 site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

selectgo.net was registered on 2013-08-06. selectgo.net resolves to the 108.174.149.154 IP address and static.selectgo00.selectgo.net to 54.230.193.85.

I’ve also seen the ad.selectgo00.selectgo.net (54.192.98.188) subdomain in use.

So, how do you remove the selectgo.net pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the selectgo.net ads I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the selectgo.net pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The issue with pop-ups like this one is that it can be initiated 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.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the selectgo.net pop-up ads you need to review your system for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Examine what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. How about your browser add-ons. Anything in the list 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 on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!