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

Here’s a screenshot of the topbinarybroker.net pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you presumably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the topbinarybroker.net ads. Don’t blame the people that owns the web site you were at, the ads are almost certainly not coming from that site, but from the adware that’s running on your machine. I’ll try help you to remove the topbinarybroker.net pop-ups in this blog post.

I found the topbinarybroker.net 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 site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

topbinarybroker.net was registered on 2015-04-28. topbinarybroker.net resolves to 52.16.89.140. 500optionaffiliates.com is located on the same IP according to YouGetSignal’s reverse lookup.

So, how do you remove the topbinarybroker.net pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the topbinarybroker.net ads I had WebShield, mystartsearch, Wajam, PhaseProfessor, FastSearch, PrimaryColor, SSFK.exe, SFKEX64.exe, YTDownloader and acengine installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the topbinarybroker.net pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The issue with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be popped up 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.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the topbinarybroker.net ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the topbinarybroker.net pop-ups is to examine the software 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 strange-looking listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed about the same time as you started observing the topbinarybroker.net pop-ups.

Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to track down 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’ve developed since 2006. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down 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 crippled like many other removal tools out there. It won’t require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties determining if a file is clean or unsafe in FreeFixer’s scan result, 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 very useful:

Here’s a video tutorial showing FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

Did this blog post help you to remove the topbinarybroker.net pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!