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

Here’s how the adnetworkperformance.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my computer:

(Sorry for the watermarks. Need to add them to prevent the most blatant attempts of other bloggers using my screenshots without attribution)

I’m not sure I remember this correctly, but I think I noticed reduxmediia.com in the address bar before adnetworkperformance.com loaded.

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you most likely have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the adnetworkperformance.com ads. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the adnetworkperformance.com removal in this blog post.

I found the adnetworkperformance.com 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 advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

adnetworkperformance.com was created on 2015-04-27. adnetworkperformance.com resolves to 130.211.186.109. The domain is protected by Domains By Proxy, LLC.

So, how do you remove the adnetworkperformance.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the adnetworkperformance.com ads I had Windows Menager, SmartComp Safe Network, gosearch.me and Live Malware Protection installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the adnetworkperformance.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

If you are wonder if there are many others out there also getting the adnetworkperformance.com ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

Rank 222 means the adnetworkperformance.com web site is getting a crazy amount of traffic.

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

So, what can be done? To remove the adnetworkperformance.com pop-up ads you need to examine your system 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 adnetworkperformance.com 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 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 some program was installed about the same time as you started seeing the adnetworkperformance.com pop-ups.

Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think you will be able to find 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 started develop about 8 years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve found 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 won’t require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties figuring out if a file is clean or malware 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 more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

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 adnetworkperformance.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!

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

Here’s how the hotchatdate.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my computer:

Does this sound like your experience, you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pops up the hotchatdate.com ads. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The advertisements are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the hotchatdate.com pop-ups in this blog post. To do this, we need to remove all the adware from your machine.

I found the hotchatdate.com 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 anything new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

hotchatdate.com was registered on 2014-05-05. hotchatdate.com resolves to the 94.199.251.101 IP address and the domain is protected by Domains By Proxy LLC.

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

Judging from Alexa’s traffic rank, hotchatdate.com is getting quite a lot of traffic:

The issue with pop-ups like the one described in this blog post is that it can be initiated 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.

So, what can be done? To remove the hotchatdate.com pop-up ads you need to review your machine 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. You can also review the add-ons you installed in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Same thing here, do you see something 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 guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

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

Thank you!

Did you just get a pop-up from dlvr.adne.tv and wonder where it came from? Did the dlvr.adne.tv 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 dlvr.adne.tv pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the big search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here’s how the dlvr.adne.tv pop-up looked like when I got it on my system:

Does this sound like what you see your system, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your system that pops up the adne.tv 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 dlvr.adne.tv removal in this blog post. This is done by uninstall the unwanted adware from your machine.

If you have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but if you are new: Not long ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. I’ve been following the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of adverts that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the systems. I first observed the dlvr.adne.tv pop-up on one of these lab computers.

dlvr.adne.tv resolves to the 162.210.196.231 IP address. dlvr.adne.tv was created on 2011-02-08. The WHOIS info is protected by Domains By Proxy LLC.

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

If you are wonder if there are many others out there also getting the dlvr.adne.tv ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

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 that’s installed 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 dlvr.adne.tv ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the dlvr.adne.tv 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 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 dubious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started observing the dlvr.adne.tv pop-ups.

Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often show up under the add-ons menu in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything 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. Freefixer is a tool built to manually identify and remove 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 won’t require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having a mess figuring out if a file is clean or malware in FreeFixer’s scan report, 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’s a video tutorial on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!

Update 2015-03-13: Added Alexa traffic rank for the adne.tv domain.