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

Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see kak.protestantsgranaries.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing web sites that in general don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the kak.protestantsgranaries.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?

Here’s how the kak.protestantsgranaries.com pop  up in my network log while I did a search at Google:

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

• Waiting for kak.protestantsgranaries.com…
• Transferring data from kak.protestantsgranaries.com…
• Looking up kak.protestantsgranaries.com…
• Read kak.protestantsgranaries.com
• Connected to kak.protestantsgranaries.com…

If you also see this on your machine, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the kak.protestantsgranaries.com domain appear in your browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you were browsing. The kak.protestantsgranaries.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the kak.protestantsgranaries.com removal in this blog post.

I found kak.protestantsgranaries.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 anything new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the web browsers, injected ads on website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

kak.protestantsgranaries.com resolves to the 81.95.152.218 IP address. kak.protestantsgranaries.com was created on 2015-05-13.

So, how do you remove kak.protestantsgranaries.com from your browser? On the machine where kak.protestantsgranaries.com showed up in the statusbar I had SalePlus, YouTubeAdBlocke and IStart 5.3.7 installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from kak.protestantsgranaries.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.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the kak.protestantsgranaries.com removal:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. You can also check the add-ons you have in your web browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, 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 system at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your system. 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 kak.protestantsgranaries.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!