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

Sound familiar? You see charmsavings.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing websites that typically don’t load any content from third party domains.

That’s what happened to me.

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

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

If you also see this on your system, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the charmsavings.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The charmsavings.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the charmsavings.com removal in this blog post.

I found charmsavings.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.

charmsavings.com resolves to the 184.172.26.52 address.

So, how do you remove charmsavings.com from your web browser? On the machine where charmsavings.com showed up in the status bar I had WNet, CashReminder, ActSys and PlainSavings installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from charmsavings.com.

The bad news 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 system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

So, what can be done? To remove charmsavings.com you need to review your computer for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Examine 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 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, 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 computer. 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 this blog post help you to remove charmsavings.com? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!