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

Does this sound familiar? You see inb.embellishedgriefs.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing on websites that usually don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the inb.embellishedgriefs.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?

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

• Waiting for inb.embellishedgriefs.com…
• Transferring data from inb.embellishedgriefs.com…
• Looking up inb.embellishedgriefs.com…
• Read inb.embellishedgriefs.com
• Connected to inb.embellishedgriefs.com…

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

I found inb.embellishedgriefs.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 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.

inb.embellishedgriefs.com was registered on 2015-07-30. inb.embellishedgriefs.com resolves to the 37.58.80.222 address.

So, how do you remove inb.embellishedgriefs.com from your browser? On the machine where inb.embellishedgriefs.com showed up in the statusbar I had Web Bar, SpeeditApp and Web United installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from inb.embellishedgriefs.com.

The problem with status bar messages like this one 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.

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

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. You can also check the web browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down potentially unwanted programs. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your computer at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can 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 inb.embellishedgriefs.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!