This page shows how to remove guy.brifyghfytify.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just see guy.brifyghfytify.com in the status bar of your browser and ask yourself where it came from? Or did guy.brifyghfytify.com show up while you search for something on one of the big search engines, such as the Google.com search engine?
Here is a screen capture on guy.brifyghfytify.com from my machine when it appeared in my network log, while I did a search at the Google search engine:
Here are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for guy.brifyghfytify.com…
- Transferring data from guy.brifyghfytify.com…
- Looking up guy.brifyghfytify.com…
- Read guy.brifyghfytify.com
- Connected to guy.brifyghfytify.com…
If you also see this on your computer, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the guy.brifyghfytify.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no use contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The guy.brifyghfytify.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the guy.brifyghfytify.com removal in this blog post.
I found guy.brifyghfytify.com on one of the lab computers 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 website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.
guy.brifyghfytify.com resolves to the 5.153.38.134 IP address. guy.brifyghfytify.com was created on 2015-01-05. The domain is protected by WhoisGuard INC.
So, how do you remove guy.brifyghfytify.com from your browser? On the machine where guy.brifyghfytify.com showed up in the status bar I had TinyWallet, BrowserWarden and BlockAndSurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from guy.brifyghfytify.com.
The bad news with this type of status bar message is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the statusbar messages.
So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove guy.brifyghfytify.com you need to review your system for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
The first thing I would do to remove guy.brifyghfytify.com is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach 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 dubious listed 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 seeing the guy.brifyghfytify.com status bar messages.
The next thing to check would be your web browser’s add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often appear under the add-ons menu in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?
I think most users will be able to find 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 started develop about 8 years ago. It’s a tool built to manually find and remove 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 locked down like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having a hard time determining 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 a web page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:
Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop guy.brifyghfytify.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!