Does this sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from super-promo.dieb.info while browsing on sites that mostly don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to find a way round the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Perhaps the super-promo.dieb.info pop-ups show up when clicking search results from a Google search? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s a screenshot of the super-promo.dieb.info pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

(Sorry for the ridiculous use of watermarks. I have to do it to stop the copy-cats.)

Does this sound like what you see your system, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the super-promo.dieb.info ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the super-promo.dieb.info pop-up in this blog post.

I found the super-promo.dieb.info 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 website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

super-promo.dieb.info was created on 2015-04-11. super-promo.dieb.info resolves to the 50.17.201.81 IP address and so does fiozz.super-promo.dieb.info. According to YouGetSignal and DomainTools are the following domains located on the same server:

• 8316.info
• 8381.info
• 8478.info
• centralcoastautocenter.com
• neobux.co
• sugardaddy.com
• www.kennethjharvey.com
• www.russetandempire.com
• bet360.com
• charterbank.com
• izzhut.com

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

If you are wonder if there are many others out there also getting the super-promo.dieb.info ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the super-promo.dieb.info ads removal:

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 review the browser add-ons. 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 super-promo.dieb.info ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!