Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up advertisements from update24.org while browsing on sites that in general don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to circumvent the built-in pop-up blockers in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the update24.org pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here is how the update24.org ad looked like on my system:

The site is making false claims that my Flash Player is outdated.

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you most likely have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the update24.org ads. Contacting the owner of the web site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll do my best to help you with the update24.org removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: A little while back I dedicated a few of my lab machines and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. I have been monitoring the actions on these computers to see what kinds of ads that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself automatically, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first found the update24.org pop-up on one of these lab systems.

update24.org resolves to 198.7.56.115. update24.org was created on 2014-12-06.

So, how do you remove the update24.org pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the update24.org ads I had OfferBouleward, PriceHorse, Salus and SpeedCheck installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the update24.org pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox.

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

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the update24.org pop-up ads you need to check your computer 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 update24.org pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows Operating System 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 in 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 update24.org pop-ups.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think you will be able to identify and remove 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 built to manually find and remove 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 locked down like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

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

Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing the adware that caused pop-up ads:

Are you a Mac or Linux user and get the update24.org pop-ups? What did you do to stop the pop-up in your browser? Please share in the comments below. Thank you!

Did this blog post help you to remove the update24.org pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!