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

Did you just interrupt your work because you noticed gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com in your browser’s status bar? You are not alone. I also got the gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com status bar message while browsing. Please read on…

Here’s how gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com showed up in my network log:

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

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

If you also see this on your machine, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no use contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com status bar messages in this blog post.

If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab computers and knowingly installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. 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 auto-updates, or if it installs additional software on the systems. I first found gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.

gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com resolves to the 37.58.67.153 address. gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com was created on 2015-05-13.

So, how do you remove gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com from your browser? On the machine where gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com showed up in the status bar 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 gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com.

The problem with status bar messages like this one 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.

So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove gpb.reconfigurepenetration.com you need to examine 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 review the add-ons you have in your web browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, 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 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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