This page shows how to remove adadvisor.net from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Does this sound like your story? You see adadvisor.net in your browser’s status bar while browsing sites that typically don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the adadvisor.net domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?

Here is how the adadvisor.net status bar message looked like on my machine:

As you can see in the screenshot above, adadvisor.net appeared while I search at Google.

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

• Waiting for adadvisor.net…
• Transferring data from adadvisor.net…
• Looking up adadvisor.net…
• Read adadvisor.net
• Connected to adadvisor.net…

If you also see this on your computer, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the adadvisor.net domain appear in your browser. Don’t flame the people that runs the site you were at when you first spotted adadvisor.net in the status bar. They are presumably not responsible, but from the potentially unwanted program that’s installed on your machine. I’ll do my best to help you with the adadvisor.net removal in this blog post.

Those that have been following this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated some of my lab machines and purposely installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been observing the actions on these computers 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 auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional software on the systems. I first found adadvisor.net in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab systems.

adadvisor.net resolves to the 63.251.249.49 IP address.

So, how do you remove adadvisor.net from your browser? On the machine where adadvisor.net showed up in the status bar I had YouTubeAdBlocke, SalePlus and IStart 5.3.7 installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from adadvisor.net.

The issue with status bar messages such as 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 computer. 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 adadvisor.net you need to review your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove adadvisor.net is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows 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 strange-looking listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started seeing the adadvisor.net status bar messages.

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

I think most users will be able to identify and remove 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 designed to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve identified 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 crippled like many other removal tools out there. It won’t require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having problems deciding if a file is clean or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan result, 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 adadvisor.net? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!