This page shows how to remove krd.semantichelper.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just see krd.semantichelper.com in the status bar of your browser and wonder where it came from? Or did krd.semantichelper.com show up while you search for something on one of the big search engines, such as the Google.com search engine?
Here is how the krd.semantichelper.com status bar message looked like on my system, when it appeared on a site that should not load data from any third party domain:
The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for krd.semantichelper.com…
- Transferring data from krd.semantichelper.com…
- Looking up krd.semantichelper.com…
- Read krd.semantichelper.com
- Connected to krd.semantichelper.com…
Does this sound like what you see your machine, you probably have some adware installed on your system that makes the krd.semantichelper.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The krd.semantichelper.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the krd.semantichelper.com message in this blog post.
Those that have been following this blog already know this, but here we go: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab machines and deliberately installed some adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been tracking the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the computers. I first found the krd.semantichelper.com in Mozilla Firefox’s statusbar on one of these lab computers.
krd.semantichelper.com was created on 2009-04-03. semantichelper.com resolves to the 173.192.219.37 IP address and so does krd.semantichelper.com.
So, how do you remove krd.semantichelper.com from your browser? On the machine where krd.semantichelper.com showed up in the status bar I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from krd.semantichelper.com.
If you are wondering if there are many others out seeing krd.semantichelper.com in the browser, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:
Seems like the traffic has gotten a boost in the end of February 2015.
The problem with statusbar messages like the one described in this blog post is that it can be caused by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my computer. 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 krd.semantichelper.com you need to examine your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
The first thing I would do to remove krd.semantichelper.com is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows OS 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 krd.semantichelper.com status bar messages.
The next thing to check would be your web browser’s add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?
I think you will be able to find and remove the adware with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’ve developed since 2006. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down 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 like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having issues deciding if a file is legitimate or adware in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your browser with a page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:
Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop krd.semantichelper.com? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!