This page shows how to remove mnh.winnership.info from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Did you just see mnh.winnership.info in the status bar of your web browser and ask yourself where it came from? Or did mnh.winnership.info show up while you search for something on one of the big search engines, such as the Google.com search engine?

Here’s how the mnh.winnership.info looked like when I got it on my computer, in the network log:

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

• Waiting for mnh.winnership.info…
• Transferring data from mnh.winnership.info…
• Looking up mnh.winnership.info…
• Read mnh.winnership.info
• Connected to mnh.winnership.info…

If this description sounds like your machine, you presumably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the mnh.winnership.info domain appear in your web browser. Don’t blame the people that owns the site you were at when you first spotted mnh.winnership.info in the status bar. They are most likely not responsible, but from the potentially unwanted program that’s installed on your system. I’ll try help you to remove the mnh.winnership.info status bar messages 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 computers and deliberately installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. I have been observing the actions on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program updates itself, or if it downloads and installs additional potentially unwanted programs on the machines. I first observed the mnh.winnership.info in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab systems.

mnh.winnership.info was created on 2014-08-30. winnership.info resolves to the 198.41.207.163 address and so does mnh.winnership.info.

Here’s some of the WHOIS info for winnership.info:

Registrant Name:Shimon Lagunin
Registrant City:Haifa
Registrant Country:IL

So, how do you remove mnh.winnership.info from your browser? On the machine where mnh.winnership.info showed up in the status bar I had BrowserWarden, BlockAndSurf and TinyWallet installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from mnh.winnership.info.

The issue with status bar messages such as this one is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

To remove mnh.winnership.info you need to review your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Check 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. How about your add-ons that you have in your browser. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did 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:

   

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

Thank you!