This page shows how to remove zbu.makingreplied.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just interrupt your work because you noticed zbu.makingreplied.com in your browser’s status bar? You are not alone. I also got the zbu.makingreplied.com status bar message while browsing. Please read on…
The following are some of the status bar notifications you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for zbu.makingreplied.com…
- Transferring data from zbu.makingreplied.com…
- Looking up zbu.makingreplied.com…
- Read zbu.makingreplied.com
- Connected to zbu.makingreplied.com…
If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the zbu.makingreplied.com domain appear in your browser. Don’t write angry emails to the website you were browsing, they are apparently not responsible for the zbu.makingreplied.com statusbar messages. The potentially unwanted program on your machine is. I’ll try help you to remove the zbu.makingreplied.com statusbar messages in this blog post.
Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Recently I dedicated some of my lab computers and intentionally installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been observing the actions on these computers 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 installs additional software on the machines. I first found zbu.makingreplied.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.
zbu.makingreplied.com was registered on 2015-05-13. zbu.makingreplied.com resolves to 5.153.38.134.
So, how do you remove zbu.makingreplied.com from your browser? On the machine where zbu.makingreplied.com showed up in the status bar I had SalePlus, IStart 5.3.7 and YouTubeAdBlocke installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from zbu.makingreplied.com.
The issue with status bar messages like the one described in this blog post is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program that’s installed on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.
So, what can be done? To remove zbu.makingreplied.com you need to check your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
- Review what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
- You can also review the add-ons you have in your web browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
- If that did not help, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down potentially unwanted programs. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your computer at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:
An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.
Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop zbu.makingreplied.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!