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

Having a mess with syd.pleagbagox.com showing up in the lower left corner of your browser? If that is the case, you might have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system. I noticed syd.pleagbagox.com in Mozilla Firefox’s statusbar when doing a search at Google, but I guess syd.pleagbagox.com can appear if you are using Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera too.

Here is how the syd.pleagbagox.com statusbar message looked like on my computer:

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

• Waiting for syd.pleagbagox.com…
• Transferring data from syd.pleagbagox.com…
• Looking up syd.pleagbagox.com…
• Read syd.pleagbagox.com
• Connected to syd.pleagbagox.com…

Does this sound like what you are seeing, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the syd.pleagbagox.com domain appear in your web browser. Contacting the owner of the web site you were browsing would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the syd.pleagbagox.com statusbar messages. I’ll do my best to help you with the syd.pleagbagox.com removal in this blog post.

I found syd.pleagbagox.com on one of the lab computers where I have some potentially unwanted programs running. I’ve talked about this in some of the previous blog posts. The potentially unwanted programs 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 web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

syd.pleagbagox.com was registered on 2015-03-18. syd.pleagbagox.com resolves to the 81.95.152.218 address.

So, how do you remove syd.pleagbagox.com from your browser? On the machine where syd.pleagbagox.com showed up in the status bar I had YouTubeAdBlocke, IStart 5.3.7 and SalePlus installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from syd.pleagbagox.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.

So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove syd.pleagbagox.com you need to review your system for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. 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. How about your add-ons you have in your browsers. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did 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 syd.pleagbagox.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!