This page shows how to remove mtd.magnetsanonymity.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Sound familiar? You see mtd.magnetsanonymity.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing on sites that mostly don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the mtd.magnetsanonymity.com domain show up when performing a search at the Google search engine?
Here is how the mtd.magnetsanonymity.com status bar message looked like on my computer:
Here are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for mtd.magnetsanonymity.com…
- Transferring data from mtd.magnetsanonymity.com…
- Looking up mtd.magnetsanonymity.com…
- Read mtd.magnetsanonymity.com
- Connected to mtd.magnetsanonymity.com…
Does this sound like your machine, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the mtd.magnetsanonymity.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the website you were browsing. The mtd.magnetsanonymity.com status bar notifications are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the mtd.magnetsanonymity.com removal in this blog post.
I found mtd.magnetsanonymity.com on one of the lab systems 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 anything 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.
mtd.magnetsanonymity.com resolves to 37.58.80.220. mtd.magnetsanonymity.com was registered on 2015-07-30.
So, how do you remove mtd.magnetsanonymity.com from your browser? On the machine where mtd.magnetsanonymity.com showed up in the status bar I had Web Bar, SpeeditApp and Web United installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from mtd.magnetsanonymity.com.
The issue 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 status bar messages.
Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the mtd.magnetsanonymity.com removal:
The first thing I would do to remove mtd.magnetsanonymity.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 strange-looking in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed about the same time as you started seeing the mtd.magnetsanonymity.com status bar messages.
Then you can examine you web browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often appear under the add-ons menu in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Anything 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 many years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve identified 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 won’t require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having issues figuring out if a file is safe or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan result, 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 quite useful:
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