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

Sound familiar? You see hqz.poisonshamrock.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing web sites that mostl of the time don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the hqz.poisonshamrock.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

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

• Waiting for hqz.poisonshamrock.com…
• Transferring data from hqz.poisonshamrock.com…
• Looking up hqz.poisonshamrock.com…
• Read hqz.poisonshamrock.com
• Connected to hqz.poisonshamrock.com…

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the hqz.poisonshamrock.com domain appear in your web browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you currently were browsing. The hqz.poisonshamrock.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the hqz.poisonshamrock.com message in this blog post.

If you have been visiting this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and purposely installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the behaviour on these systems 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 auto-updates, or if it installs additional software on the machines. I first observed hqz.poisonshamrock.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab systems.

hqz.poisonshamrock.com was registered on 2015-05-13. hqz.poisonshamrock.com resolves to the 81.95.152.219 address.

So, how do you remove hqz.poisonshamrock.com from your browser? On the machine where hqz.poisonshamrock.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 hqz.poisonshamrock.com.

The problem with this type of status bar message is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

To remove hqz.poisonshamrock.com you need to check your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Check 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 that you have in your browser. Anything in the list 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 web 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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