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

Does this sound familiar? You see loadr.exelator.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing on web sites that generally don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the loadr.exelator.com domain show up when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here is a screen capture on loadr.exelator.com from my machine:

As you can see in the screen grab above, loadr.exelator.com showed itself in the status bar while I used Google’s search engine.

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

• Waiting for loadr.exelator.com…
• Transferring data from loadr.exelator.com…
• Looking up loadr.exelator.com…
• Read loadr.exelator.com
• Connected to loadr.exelator.com…

Does this sound like what you are seeing, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the loadr.exelator.com domain appear in your web browser. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the web site you currently were browsing. The loadr.exelator.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the loadr.exelator.com removal in this blog post.

If you have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but if you are new: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and intentionally installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then 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 updates itself, or if it downloads additional software on the computers. I first found loadr.exelator.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.

loadr.exelator.com resolves to the 23.92.190.243 address. According to YouGetSignal’s lookup service, the following domains are located on the same IP:

• load.exelator.com
• loadeu.exelator.com
• loadm.exelator.com
• loadus.exelator.com

So, how do you remove loadr.exelator.com from your web browser? On the machine where loadr.exelator.com showed up in the statusbar I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from loadr.exelator.com.

The issue 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 status bar messages.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the loadr.exelator.com removal:

1. Examine 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 examine the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not 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 computer at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your computer. 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:

   

Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop loadr.exelator.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!