Recently I started to examine the various types of ads that are launched by adware or other types of unwanted software installed on users’ machines. Today I noticed a pop-up “survey” from supermarktquiz.com as you can see in the screenshot below. I think it is important to document these pop-ups and the domains that host them since it is usually the first sign of an adware infection that users see.

Typically, these pop-ups surveys tries give the impression that they are launched by the web site that the user was currently browsing, often by quoting the domain name. In my case, I was visiting the 4shared site, and suddenly a “4shared survey” popped up. But the pop-up ads were fact launched by the adware running on my machine.

So how can you remove the supermarktquiz.com pop-ups? I removed it by uninstalling the adware that was running on my machine. The adware were TinyWallet, ProtectedBrowsing and BlockAndSurf. I used the freeware tool FreeFixer to remove them.

I think that the  supermarktquiz.com survey pop-ups can be triggered by other variants of adware as well, so keep that in mind when tracking down the unwanted software. Did you have to uninstall something else than the 3 adwares mentioned above? Please post a comment to help other users in the same situation.

supermarktquiz.com resolves to the 209.236.113.247 IP address which appears to be a dedicated server. The supermarktquiz.com domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:

Thanks for reading.