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Remove ami.coupplayoffgame.com Pop-Up Ads

Getting pop-up ads from ami.coupplayoffgame.com? Do the pop-ups bypass Firefox’, Chrome’s and Internet Explorer’s pop-up blockers? Do the ami.coupplayoffgame.com popups appear on sites that normally don’t show any pop-ups? Most likely, you have some adware install and running on your machine. On the computer where I got these pop-ups I had Safer-Surf, SmarterOnes and Support 1.80 installed. I removed these with FreeFixer and the problem was solved.

Here’s how the ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-up looked like:

ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-up ad in Firefox

Sorry for the silly use of watermarks in the screenshot, but if I don’t that the screenshot always show up at some copy-cat blogs 🙂

In my case, the adware responsible for the ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-ups was SaferSurf, since the pop-up was labeled with the adware name. What name appeared in your pop-up?

Ads by SaferSurf

So, how do you remove the ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-ups? I would do it like this:

  1. First I’d check the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you find some adware there? Uninstall it.
  2. Then I would check the browser’s add-on menu. Does something suspicious show up? Uninstall it.
  3. If that did not help, you can try the FreeFixer removal tool which is designed to manually track down and remove unwanted software. If you have difficulties to determine if some files in FreeFixer’s scan result are legit or malware, try the More Info link which will show a VirusTotal report for the file:
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More Info links in FreeFixer. Click for full size.

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Remove ace.couprace.com Pop-Up Ads

If you are getting bombarded with pop-ups ads from ace.couprace.com you have some adware installed on your machine. I got the pop-up in Firefox, but it can also appear if you are browsing the web with Chrome or Internet Explorer. Here’s how the pop-up ad look on my computer:

ace.couprace.com pop-up

I got the pop-ups when clicking links in Google’s search results. I think the ads can appear when using other search engines such as Yahoo and Bing. This raised some red flags since these search engines never shows ads in pop-ups.

I’ve noticed this type of pop-up ad triggered by adware such as BlockNSurf, New Player, Speed Check and SaferSurf. Sometimes the pop-up window is labeled with the adware name. Mine was labeled “Ads by BlockAndSurf” in the upper right corner of the browser:

Ads by BlockAndSurf pop-up

Were the ace.couprace.com ads you were getting also labeled? Please post what the label said on your machine. Thanks!

So, if you’d like to stop the ace.couprace.com pop-up ads, I’d check if I could find something suspicious on the computer by looking in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. You can sort on the “Installed On” date to see if somehing was added recently.

You can also check your browser’s add-ons to see if you find something there.

If that does not help, try the freeware FreeFixer tool to track down the adware launching the pop-ups. Tip: If you don’t know if a file in FreeFixer’s scan result is legitimate or adware, click the More Info link for that file. It will show a VirusTotal report for the file which will help a lot.

freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf

Thank you for reading. Did this help you remove the ace.couprace.com pop-ups?

Update 2014-11-14: Thanks to “Ainigma” for reporting in that the ace.couprace.com pop-ups can appear when running Linux based Ubuntu and Google Chrome.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Google Analytics page for this blog post, and there are some indications that Mac users are also seeing the ace.couprace.com ads. If you are a Mac user and get the ace.couprace.com popup, please post a comment below. What browser do you use? Did you find out how to remove the adware responsible for the ace.couprace.com pop-ups?

Seems like it’s mostly users from Europe and Southeast Asian that are having problems with the couprace.com ads. Are you also from this part of the world? I’m living in Sweden.

ace.couprace.com map

Remove ais.coupat-bat.com Pop-Up Ads

If you get pop-ups ads from ais.coupat-bat.com you probably have adware on your machine. Here’s how the pop-up ad look on my machine:

ais.coupat-bat.com pop-up

I’ve seen this type of pop-up launched by adware such as BlockAndSurf, NewPlayer, SpeedCheck and SaferSurf. Sometimes the pop-up window is tagged with the name of the adware. Here’s a screenshot from my machine where the ad was labeled “Ads by BlockAndSurf” in the upper right corner of the browser window:

Pop-up labeled "Ads by BlockAndSurf"

Were the ais.coupat-bat.com pop-ups you were getting also labeled? Please post what the label said on your machine. Thank you!

So, if you’d like to remove the ais.coupat-bat.com pop-up ads, I’d check if I could find something suspicious on the machine by looking in the Remove Programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Sort on the “Installed On” date to see if anything was added recently.

I would also check my browser’s add-ons to see if something unexpected shows up there.

If that does not help, try the freeware tool FreeFixer to track down the adware responsible for the pop-ups. Tip: If you don’t know whether a file in FreeFixer’s scan result is legit or malware, please click the More Info link for the file. It will show a VirusTotal report for the file which will help a lot.

freefixer-more-info-skype_setup

Thank you for reading. Did this help you remove the ais.coupat-bat.com pop-ups?

Remove ant.coupmatchup.com Pop-Up Ads

Does this sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from ant.coupmatchup.com while browsing web sites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to bypass the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. Perhaps the ant.coupmatchup.com popups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

If this description sounds like your experience you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pop up the ant.coupmatchup.com ads. So don’t write angry emails to the site you were browsing, the ads are most likely not coming from them, but from the adware on your machine 🙂 I’ll try help you with the ant.coupmatchup.com removal in this blog post.

Here’s how the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my machine:ant.coupmatchup.com popup

Sorry for the extensive use of watermarks in the screenshot, but if I don’t watermark it some copy-cat bloggers will use it in their blogs 🙂

Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. I’ve been following the behaviour on these machines to see what kinds of different advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first spotted the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

So, how do you remove the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the ant.coupmatchup.com ads I had the CheckMeUp adware  and the TinyWallet adware installed. I removed these with FreeFixer and that stopped the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox. CheckMeUp was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case. I could see this since it was kind enough to label the pop-up ad with the adware name:

Pop-up labeled "Ads by CheckMeUp" in Firefox

What label did your pop-up ad have? Please share in the comments area below.

The issue  with this type of pop-up is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. I think the following adware programs can also be responsible for the ant.coupmatchup.com popups:

And probably many other variants of adware programs too, which makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups. Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the ant.coupmatchup.com ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-ups is to examine the programs 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 you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:

Uninstall a program search

Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:Uninstall a program dialog

Do you see something suspicious 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 pop-ups.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Mozilla Firefox, Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Is there anything that look suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

Firefox add-ons manager

I think most users will be able to identify the adware with the two 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. It’s a tool designed to manually track down unwanted software. When you’ve identified 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 will not ask you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having problem determining if a file is malware or clean in the FreeFixer 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:

FreeFixer More Info link example
An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.

Are you a Mac or Linux (Ubuntu) user and get the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-ups? A few users reported that removing some unwanted browser extension in Chrome solved the problem. What did you do to stop the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-ups on your Mac or Linux machine? Please share in the comments below. Thank you very much!

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

Thank you!

 

How To Remove ago.coupround.com Pop-Up Ads

If you are getting pop-ups from ago.coupround.com you probably have some adware installed on your machine.

ago.coupround.com pop-up

I’ve seen this type of pop-up launched by the following adware: BlockAndSurf, Safer-Surf, NewPlayer and SpeedCheck.

Here’s my suggested removal procedure for ago.coupround.com:

  1. Check the programs in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something suspicious?
  2. Check the add-ons in your browser. Does anything suspicious come up?
  3. If that did not help you to stop the ago.coupround.com pop-up ads, you can scan your computer with FreeFixer that hopefully can help you track down the adware.

What adware did you find on your machine? Please share by posting a comment below.

Thank you for reading.

Remove adz.coupfinal.com Pop-Up Ads

Getting lots of pop-ups from adz.coupfinal.com? Do you get these pop-ups ads on sites that never show pop-ups such as Google, Bing and Yahoo? Then you probably have some adware on your machine.

adz.coupfinal.com pop-up

 

The pop-up URL also mention a domain named inb.csrvrgroup.com:

inb.csrvrgroup.com in pop-up

Sorry for this short post, but I’m in a hurry. The hosting company I’m staying at has upgraded their servers to Ubuntu, so I’m fixing a few problems on the freefixer.com web site right now. Hope to have it running 100% tonight. Currently, the pie charts are broken.

Anyway, I know that this type of pop-up can be opened by adware such as BlockAndSurf, Safer-Surf, NewPlayer and SpeedCheck. Uninstall these if you find them on your machine. If you are having problems tracking down the adware that cause the adz.coupfinal.com pop-ups, please check out FreeFixer which can help you find the adware and remove the adz.coupfinal.com pop-ups.

Thanks for reading!

What adware did you remove to stop the adz.coupfinal.com pop-ups? Please share by posting a comment below.

Remove aim.couphomegame.com Pop-Up Ads

If there’s pop-ups from aim.couphomegame.com appearing on your machine, that managed to sneak through the built-in pop-up blockers in your browser and that appears on web sites that normally does not have any pop-ups, you probably have some adware installed on your computer.

aim.couphomegame.com pop-up

As you can see above, I got the aim.couphomegame.com pop-up while browsing in Mozilla Firefox, but the pop-ups can appear if you are using other browsers, such as Google Chrome or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

If you’ve been visiting this blog the for the last month you probably know that I’ve been building a little lab with machines, where I’ve deliberately installed some software that shows advertisements. This type of software is often called adware and most people think is unwanted and wants to uninstall it right away. I totally agree with that. On the lab machine where I found the aim.couphomegame.com pop-ups ads, I had installed BlockAndSurf and TinyWallet. I removed these with FreeFixer and the problem was solved. If you got any of these on your machine, that’s a pretty good start: Removing those may solve the aim.couphomegame.com problem.

The problem is that the aim.couphomegame.com can be caused by other variants of adware too. So, unfortunately I cannot say exactly what should be removed. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

  1. Review the programs you have installed on your machine in the “Remove programs” list in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything there that you don’t remember installing or that appeared about the same time as you first noticed then aim.couphomegame.com pop-ups? If you find any adware or other types of unwanted software, uninstall it.
  2. Open up the add-ons menu in your browser. Do you see something there that looks suspicious or that you don’t remember installing. If you find some unwanted software, remove it.
  3. If that still did not help, you can give FreeFixer a shot. It’s a freeware tool designed to help users track down and remove unwanted software on your Windows machine. FreeFixer’s removal feature is not crippled like many other removal tools out there and will not require you to pay just when you are about to remove the unwanted files or settings that you found. I’m the developer of this free tool and If it helped you solve the aim.couphomegame.com problem, please help me spread the word and let your friends now about it.

If you are having difficulties to determine if a files is safe or malware in FreeFixer’s scan result, please check out what’s behind the More Info links. You can find lots of useful info there that will help you, among other things a scan report from VirusTotal that can be very useful when tracking down the adware.

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Demonstrating the More Info links and the VirusTotal report. Click for full size.

Well, hope that helped you remove the aim.couphomegame.com ads. What adware did you uninstall to stop the pop-ups? Please share by posting a comment below.

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Remove aal.coupmatch.com Pop-Up Ads

Just wanted to let you know about the aal.coupmatch.com pop-ups. If you see these ads on your machine, you most likely have some adware on your machine that launch these pop-ups.

aal.coupmatch.com pop-up

I’m in a hurry, so please bare with this short post. Here’s my suggested removal for the aal.coupmatch.com pop-ups ads.

1.  Examine the programs installed on your machine in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Uninstall if you find some adware.

2. Go through the add-ons installed in your browser. If you find some adware, remove it.

3. If that did not help, you can use FreeFixer to manually track down the adware files that opened the aal.coupmatch.com pop-up. Tip: Use the More Info links to open up a VirusTotal report for a particular file in the scan result.

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The More Info links. Click for full size

Did you find some adware on your machine? Please post the name of the adware in the comments below to help other users with the aal.coupmatch.com popup problem.

On my machine, the adware responsible for the aal.coupmatch.com pop-up was called Safer-Surf.

Thank you for reading!