This page shows how to remove crc.bubbleegpagad.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Sound familiar? You see crc.bubbleegpagad.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing web sites that generally don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the crc.bubbleegpagad.com domain show up when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?
Here’s a screenshot of crc.bubbleegpagad.com when it showed up on my system:
Here are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s statusbar:
- Waiting for crc.bubbleegpagad.com…
- Transferring data from crc.bubbleegpagad.com…
- Looking up crc.bubbleegpagad.com…
- Read crc.bubbleegpagad.com
- Connected to crc.bubbleegpagad.com…
If this description sounds like your story, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the crc.bubbleegpagad.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the site you currently were browsing. The crc.bubbleegpagad.com statusbar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the crc.bubbleegpagad.com message in this blog post.
I found crc.bubbleegpagad.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 browsers, injected ads on site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.
crc.bubbleegpagad.com resolves to the 5.153.38.134 IP address.
So, how do you remove crc.bubbleegpagad.com from your browser? On the machine where crc.bubbleegpagad.com showed up in the status bar I had CheckMeUp installed. I removed it with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from crc.bubbleegpagad.com.
The issue with this type of statusbar message is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program running on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.
Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the crc.bubbleegpagad.com removal:
The first thing I would do to remove crc.bubbleegpagad.com is to examine the programs 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 Operating System 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 in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed about the same time as you started getting the crc.bubbleegpagad.com status bar messages.
Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often appear under the add-ons menu in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?
I think you will be able to identify and uninstall 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’ve developed since 2006. It’s a tool built 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 a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having issues deciding if a file is safe or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your web browser with a page which contains more 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 crc.bubbleegpagad.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!