This page shows how to remove p.pxl2015x1.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Did you just see p.pxl2015x1.com in the status bar in your browser and ponder where it came from? Or did p.pxl2015x1.com show up while you searched for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?

Here is how the p.pxl2015x1.com status bar message looked like on my machine:

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

• Waiting for p.pxl2015x1.com…
• Transferring data from p.pxl2015x1.com…
• Looking up p.pxl2015x1.com…
• Read p.pxl2015x1.com
• Connected to p.pxl2015x1.com…

Does this sound like your experience, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the p.pxl2015x1.com domain appear in your browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the web site you currently were browsing. The p.pxl2015x1.com statusbar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the p.pxl2015x1.com removal in this blog post.

If you have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and knowingly installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I’ve been following the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements, 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 installs additional software on the systems. I first spotted p.pxl2015x1.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab systems.

p.pxl2015x1.com resolves to the 54.209.224.161 IP address. p.pxl2015x1.com was created on 2014-12-28.

So, how do you remove p.pxl2015x1.com from your browser? On the machine where p.pxl2015x1.com showed up in the status bar I had NetMon and Jelbrus Secure Web installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from p.pxl2015x1.com.

It seems as p.pxl2015x1.com is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The issue with statusbar messages like this one is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the statusbar messages.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the p.pxl2015x1.com removal:

1. Review 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. How about your add-ons you installed in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t 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:

   

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Thank you!