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

Does this sound familiar? You see vkx.survivesovershadowing.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing web sites that typically don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the vkx.survivesovershadowing.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

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

• Waiting for vkx.survivesovershadowing.com…
• Transferring data from vkx.survivesovershadowing.com…
• Looking up vkx.survivesovershadowing.com…
• Read vkx.survivesovershadowing.com
• Connected to vkx.survivesovershadowing.com…

Does this sound like your story, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the vkx.survivesovershadowing.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner of the website you were browsing would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the vkx.survivesovershadowing.com statusbar messages. I’ll do my best to help you remove the vkx.survivesovershadowing.com message in this blog post.

If you have been visiting this blog already know this, but if you are new: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and knowingly installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of ads, 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 downloads and installs additional software on the systems. I first noticed vkx.survivesovershadowing.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab systems.

vkx.survivesovershadowing.com resolves to the 37.58.80.220 address.

So, how do you remove vkx.survivesovershadowing.com from your web browser? On the machine where vkx.survivesovershadowing.com showed up in the statusbar I had PriceFountain, SpeedChecker, YTDownloader and WebWaltz installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from vkx.survivesovershadowing.com.

The issue with statusbar 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 on my machine. 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 vkx.survivesovershadowing.com removal:

The first thing I would do to remove vkx.survivesovershadowing.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 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 about the same time as you started observing the vkx.survivesovershadowing.com status bar messages.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often appear under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, 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 started develop many years ago. Freefixer is a tool built to manually identify 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 troubles figuring out if a file is safe or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more information 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 vkx.survivesovershadowing.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!