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

Did you just see fbs.hearkenperturbation.com in the status bar of your browser and wonder where it came from? Or did fbs.hearkenperturbation.com show up while you searched for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?

Here is a screengrab on fbs.hearkenperturbation.com from my computer:

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

• Waiting for fbs.hearkenperturbation.com…
• Transferring data from fbs.hearkenperturbation.com…
• Looking up fbs.hearkenperturbation.com…
• Read fbs.hearkenperturbation.com
• Connected to fbs.hearkenperturbation.com…

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

I found fbs.hearkenperturbation.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.

fbs.hearkenperturbation.com was registered on 2015-07-30. fbs.hearkenperturbation.com resolves to the 37.58.67.153 IP address.

So, how do you remove fbs.hearkenperturbation.com from your browser? On the machine where fbs.hearkenperturbation.com showed up in the status bar I had FastSearch, YTDownloader, SSFK.exe, SFKEX64.exe, PrimaryColor, PhaseProfessor, mystartsearch, WebShield and Wajam installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from fbs.hearkenperturbation.com.

The problem with this type of status bar 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.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove fbs.hearkenperturbation.com you need to check your system for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
2. You can also examine the add-ons that you have in your browser. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not help, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’m working on that scans your computer at lots of locations, such as browser add-ons, processes, Windows services, recently modified files, etc. If you want to get additional details about a file in the scan result, you can click the More Info link for that file and a web page will open up with a VirusTotal report which will be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

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

Thank you!