Remove superiends.org Pop Up Ads

Did you just get a pop-up from superiends.org and wonder where it came from? Did the superiends.org ad appear to have been popped up from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up ads? Or did the superiends.org pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the big search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here’s how the superiends.org pop-up looked like when I got it on my machine:

If you also see this on your computer, you probably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the superiends.org ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the web site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the superiends.org pop-up in this blog post.

I found the superiends.org 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.

superiends.org was created on 2014-08-20. superiends.org resolves to the 104.28.6.50 IP address.

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

It seems as superiends.org is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The issue with pop-ups like this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

To remove the superiends.org pop-up ads you need to review your machine 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 superiends.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 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 listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed approximately about the same time as you started seeing the superiends.org pop-ups.

Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often show up under the add-ons dialog in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think you will be able to find and uninstall 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 started develop many years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually identify and remove unwanted software. When you’ve found 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 locked like many other removal tools out there. It won’t require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having troubles determining if a file is legitimate or adware in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful: