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

Did you just interrupt your work because you noticed zre.swivelledtributary.com in your web browser’s status bar? You are not alone. I also got the zre.swivelledtributary.com statusbar message while browsing. Please read on…

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

• Waiting for zre.swivelledtributary.com…
• Transferring data from zre.swivelledtributary.com…
• Looking up zre.swivelledtributary.com…
• Read zre.swivelledtributary.com
• Connected to zre.swivelledtributary.com…

If you also see this on your computer, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the zre.swivelledtributary.com domain appear in your web browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The zre.swivelledtributary.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the zre.swivelledtributary.com removal in this blog post.

If you have been visiting this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated some of my lab computers and knowingly installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. I’ve been following the behaviour on these machines to see what kinds of adverts, 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 machines. I first noticed zre.swivelledtributary.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.

zre.swivelledtributary.com resolves to 37.58.80.222.

So, how do you remove zre.swivelledtributary.com from your browser? On the machine where zre.swivelledtributary.com showed up in the status bar I had CheckMeUp installed. I removed it with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from zre.swivelledtributary.com.

The problem with status bar messages such as 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 zre.swivelledtributary.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 zre.swivelledtributary.com is to examine the programs 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 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 suspect 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 seeing the zre.swivelledtributary.com status bar messages.

Then you can examine you web browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often appear under the add-ons menu in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to find and uninstall 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 built to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down 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 like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties figuring out if a file is legit or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan report, 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:

Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop zre.swivelledtributary.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!