It gets better.
I did pay for it and ran it.
Not only did it fail to remove the pop ups, it flagged and removed parts of itself, so that next time I attempted to run it, nope. Forget it.
No prob, I thought. I'll just download it again and re-install it and use the activation I just paid for.
Guess what? It wouldn't let me. I am still trying to resolve that.
(and I still have pop-ups)