Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up ads from thirtydaychange.com while browsing web sites that typically don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to escape the built-in popup blockers in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the thirtydaychange.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from a Google search? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here is a screenshot on the thirtydaychange.com pop-up from my system:

Does this sound like what you see your system, you probably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the thirtydaychange.com ads. Don’t blame the people that runs the site you were at, the ads are presumably not coming from that site, but from the adware that’s installed on your system. I’ll do my best to help you with the thirtydaychange.com removal in this blog post.

If you have been following this blog already know this, but if you are new: A little while back I dedicated a few of my lab systems and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. I have been observing the actions on these machines 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 downloads additional unwanted software on the systems. I first found the thirtydaychange.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

thirtydaychange.com resolves to the 184.106.55.90 IP address. thirtydaychange.com was created on 2015-08-13.

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

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

The traffic seems to have boosted at the beginning of September 2015.

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

To remove the thirtydaychange.com pop-up ads you need to check your system 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 anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. You can also examine the add-ons that you have in your browser. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, 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 showing FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!