This page shows how to remove 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Does this sound like your story? You see 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing websites that commonly don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here’s how the 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com status bar message looked like when I got it on my system:

The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:

• Waiting for 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com…
• Transferring data from 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com…
• Looking up 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com…
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If you also see this on your computer, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the web site you were browsing. The 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com status bar notifications are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab computers and purposely installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. I have been tracking the behaviour on these machines to see what kinds of adverts, if any, that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program updates itself automatically, or if it downloads and installs additional software on the computers. I first observed 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com in Mozilla Firefox’s statusbar on one of these lab computers.

3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com was registered on 2015-01-06. 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com resolves to 64.251.19.182.

So, how do you remove 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com from your browser? On the machine where 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com showed up in the status bar I had Jelbrus Secure Web and NetMon installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com.

The bad news with this type of status bar message is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com removal:

1. Examine 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 you have in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that does not help, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the potentially unwanted program. 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:

   

Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop 3c961088754249e1a7df5454ec95a6c2.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!