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

Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see wan.acapulcosonars.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing at web sites that normally don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the wan.acapulcosonars.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

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

• Waiting for wan.acapulcosonars.com…
• Transferring data from wan.acapulcosonars.com…
• Looking up wan.acapulcosonars.com…
• Read wan.acapulcosonars.com
• Connected to wan.acapulcosonars.com…

If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the wan.acapulcosonars.com domain appear in your browser. Don’t write angry emails to the website you were browsing, they are probably not responsible for the wan.acapulcosonars.com status bar messages. The potentially unwanted program on your computer is. I’ll try help you to remove the wan.acapulcosonars.com status bar messages in this blog post.

I found wan.acapulcosonars.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 web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

wan.acapulcosonars.com resolves to the 37.58.67.152 IP address. wan.acapulcosonars.com was registered on 2015-05-13.

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

The bad news with status bar messages like this one 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 statusbar messages.

So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove wan.acapulcosonars.com you need to examine your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove wan.acapulcosonars.com is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows Operating System 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 suspicious in 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 wan.acapulcosonars.com status bar messages.

The next thing to check would be your web browser’s add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often show up under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to track down 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 started develop about 8 years ago. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually find 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 issues determining if a file is legit or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your browser with a page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

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Thank you!