Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from thedailytrader.net while browsing sites that in general don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to find a way round the built-in pop-up blockers in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the thedailytrader.net pop-ups appear when clicking search results from the Google search engine? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here is how the thedailytrader.net ad looked like on my system, when it popped up in a new tab:

If this description sounds like your story, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the thedailytrader.net ads. So don’t write angry emails to the web site you were browsing, the ads are apparently not coming from them, but from the adware on your computer. I’ll do my best to help you with the thedailytrader.net removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the actions 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 found the thedailytrader.net pop-up on one of these lab systems.

thedailytrader.net resolves to the 50.7.157.122 address. thedailytrader.net was created on 2014-08-19. According to YouGetSignal’s reverse IP service, the following domains are also located at the same IP:

• b32.binaryinstructor.net
• b34.binaryinstructor.net
• b40.binaryinstructor.net
• b55.bincodesupport.com
• c17.bluetradingonline.net
• copytraderpro.com
• dailyprofitmethod.org
• guidetobinarytrading.com
• media.guidetobinarytrading.com
• w21.copytraderpro.com
• w22.copytraderpro.com
• www.freepatentsonline.com
• www.guidetobinarytrading.com

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

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

The site started to get some major traffic in the beginning of April 2015.

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

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

The first thing I would do to remove the thedailytrader.net pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find 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 shady 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 getting the thedailytrader.net pop-ups.

Then you can examine you browser 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 find 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 about 8 years ago. It’s 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 locked 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 difficulties determining if a file is clean or adware in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

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

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

Thank you!

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

Here is a screenshot on the binaryprofessional.com pop-up tab from my machine:

If this description sounds like your experience, you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pops up the binaryprofessional.com ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the web site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the binaryprofessional.com removal in this blog post.

I found the binaryprofessional.com pop-up on one of the lab systems 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.

binaryprofessional.com was registered on 2014-05-25. binaryprofessional.com resolves to the 50.7.157.122 address.

The binaryprofessional.com domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:

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

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

To remove the binaryprofessional.com pop-up ads you need to examine your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
2. How about your browser add-ons. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not 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 which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!