Sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from vinnmatpengar.se while browsing websites that generally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to evade the built-in pop-up blockers in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the vinnmatpengar.se pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here is how the vinnmatpengar.se ad looked like on my computer, when it showed up in a new tab:

If this description sounds like your computer, you presumably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the vinnmatpengar.se ads. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the vinnmatpengar.se pop-ups in this blog post.

I found the vinnmatpengar.se 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.

vinnmatpengar.se was registered on 2014-04-03. The site is hosted at 62.80.8.160. According to YouGetSignal and DomainTools, the following sites are also located on the same IP:

• www.aussieshoppingvoucher.com
• www.bonsdachats.com
• www.greatsingaporevoucher.com.sg
• www.india-rewards.com
• www.prizemill.com
• www.rewards-singapore.com
• www.twoj-shans.com
• www.yourvoucher-singapore.com
• 1000-euro-monatlich.com
• 1000-nagrod.com
• 1000-poukazek.com

So, how do you remove the vinnmatpengar.se pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the vinnmatpengar.se ads I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the vinnmatpengar.se pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla 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 system. 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 vinnmatpengar.se pop-up ads you need to review your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Review 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 check the add-ons that you have in your browser. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that does 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 machine. 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’s a video tutorial on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!