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

Does this sound like your story? You see hcg.mumbleinterim.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing on web sites that typically don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the hcg.mumbleinterim.com domain show up when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here’s hcg.mumbleinterim.com in my network log:

It appeared while I did a Google search.

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

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

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the hcg.mumbleinterim.com domain appear in your web browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the website you were browsing. The hcg.mumbleinterim.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the hcg.mumbleinterim.com message in this blog post.

I found hcg.mumbleinterim.com on one of the lab systems 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.

hcg.mumbleinterim.com was registered on 2015-05-13. hcg.mumbleinterim.com resolves to 5.153.38.134.

So, how do you remove hcg.mumbleinterim.com from your browser? On the machine where hcg.mumbleinterim.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 browser from loading data from hcg.mumbleinterim.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 that’s installed on my computer. 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 hcg.mumbleinterim.com removal:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. You can also review the add-ons you installed in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t 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 machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. 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:

   

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