Does this sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from themillionaireinpjs.com while browsing at web sites that in general don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to evade the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Perhaps the themillionaireinpjs.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s a screen dump of the themillionaireinpjs.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

Does this sound like what you see your system, you most likely have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the themillionaireinpjs.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the web site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the themillionaireinpjs.com removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab computers and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. I’ve been monitoring 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 updates itself automatically, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the machines. I first spotted the themillionaireinpjs.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

themillionaireinpjs.com was created on 2014-10-27. themillionaireinpjs.com resolves to the 5.254.113.102 address.

So, how do you remove the themillionaireinpjs.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the themillionaireinpjs.com ads I had Live Malware Protection, SmartComp Safe Network, Windows Menager and gosearch.me installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the themillionaireinpjs.com 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 themillionaireinpjs.com ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

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

So, what can be done? To remove the themillionaireinpjs.com pop-up ads you need to check your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Check 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. You can also review the add-ons you have in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not help, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down adware and other types of unwanted software. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your computer. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!