This page shows how to remove a.xfreeservice.com and c.xfreeservice.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Sound familiar? You see a.xfreeservice.com in your network log or in the browser’s status bar while browsing web sites that commonly don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the a.xfreeservice.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here is a screenshot on a.xfreeservice.com from my machine when it showed up in the network log, while I did a search at Google:

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

• Waiting for a.xfreeservice.com…
• Transferring data from a.xfreeservice.com…
• Looking up a.xfreeservice.com…
• Read a.xfreeservice.com
• Connected to a.xfreeservice.com…

Does this sound like what you see your system, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the a.xfreeservice.com domain appear in your web browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you were browsing. The a.xfreeservice.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the xfreeservice.com status bar messages in this blog post.

Those that have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but here we go: Not long ago I dedicated a few of my lab machines and intentionally installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I’ve been tracking the behaviour on these machines to see what kinds of advertisements, if any, that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program updates itself, or if it downloads and installs additional software on the systems. I first observed a.xfreeservice.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.

a.xfreeservice.com resolves to the 176.34.249.72 address. a.xfreeservice.com was created on 2013-08-30. The domain info is protected by whoisproxy.com Ltd.

So, how do you remove a.xfreeservice.com from your web browser? On the machine where a.xfreeservice.com showed up in the statusbar I had NetMon and Jelbrus Secure Web installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from a.xfreeservice.com.

The problem with statusbar messages like this one is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program that’s installed on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

To remove a.xfreeservice.com you need to review your computer 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. How about your add-ons you have in your browsers. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t 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 web 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:

   

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Thank you!