Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from smartprofits.org while browsing sites that usually don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to circumvent the built-in pop-up blockers in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the smartprofits.org pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here is how the smartprofits.org ad looked like on my system:

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the smartprofits.org ads. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The adverts are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the smartprofits.org pop ups in this blog post. This is done by removing unwanted adware from your machine.

If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab systems and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been observing the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first found the smartprofits.org pop-up on one of these lab systems.

smartprofits.org was registered on 2014-03-18. smartprofits.org resolves to 88.85.68.248.

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

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

The issue with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my computer. I think that adware such as PriceFountain, YTDownloader, WebWaltz, Movie Wizard and MedPlayerNewVersion can also be responsible for the smartprofits.org 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.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the smartprofits.org ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the smartprofits.org pop-ups is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows OS 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 strange-looking in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed about the same time as you started getting the smartprofits.org pop-ups.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think you 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 built to manually find and uninstall 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 problems determining if a file is clean or unsafe in the FreeFixer 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 which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!