This page shows how to remove lnkr.us from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

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

Here is how  lnkr.us appeared on my machine, while I did a search at Google:

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

• Waiting for lnkr.us…
• Transferring data from lnkr.us…
• Looking up lnkr.us…
• Read lnkr.us
• Connected to lnkr.us…

If this description sounds like your system, you presumably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the lnkr.us domain appear in your browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the website you were browsing. The lnkr.us status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the lnkr.us statusbar messages in this blog post.

I found lnkr.us 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 web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

lnkr.us resolves to the 144.76.70.50 address. lnkr.us was created on 2013-12-19. The domain is registered by Sergei Filov, located in Kiev, Ukraine.

So, how do you remove lnkr.us from your browser? On the machine where lnkr.us showed up in the status bar I had NetMon and Jelbrus Secure Web installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from lnkr.us.

It seems as lnkr.us is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

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 machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

So, what can be done? To remove lnkr.us you need to check your machine 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 browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that does not help, 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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Thank you!