This page shows how to remove whl.ovoidduel.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just see whl.ovoidduel.com in the status bar of your browser and wonder where it came from? Or did whl.ovoidduel.com show up while you searched for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?
Here is a screenshot on whl.ovoidduel.com from my machine:
The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s statusbar:
- Waiting for whl.ovoidduel.com…
- Transferring data from whl.ovoidduel.com…
- Looking up whl.ovoidduel.com…
- Read whl.ovoidduel.com
- Connected to whl.ovoidduel.com…
Does this sound like what you are seeing, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the whl.ovoidduel.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no use contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The whl.ovoidduel.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the whl.ovoidduel.com status bar messages in this blog post.
I found whl.ovoidduel.com on one of the lab machines 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 site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.
whl.ovoidduel.com resolves to the 5.153.38.133 IP address.
So, how do you remove whl.ovoidduel.com from your web browser? On the machine where whl.ovoidduel.com showed up in the statusbar I had SalePlus, IStart 5.3.7 and YouTubeAdBlocke installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from whl.ovoidduel.com.
The problem with this type of statusbar 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 whl.ovoidduel.com removal:
The first thing I would do to remove whl.ovoidduel.com is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:
Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:
Do you see something suspect listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started observing the whl.ovoidduel.com status bar messages.
The next thing to check would be your web browser’s add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often appear under the add-ons dialog in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?
I think you will be able to find and remove the potentially unwanted program with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’ve developed since 2006. It’s a tool built to manually identify and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve found the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.
FreeFixer’s removal feature is not locked down like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having troubles figuring out if a file is legitimate or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:
Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop whl.ovoidduel.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!