This page shows how to remove msv.edgeecguagbe.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Sound familiar? You see msv.edgeecguagbe.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing sites that usually don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the msv.edgeecguagbe.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?
Here’s msv.edgeecguagbe.com in my network log:
The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s statusbar:
- Waiting for msv.edgeecguagbe.com…
- Transferring data from msv.edgeecguagbe.com…
- Looking up msv.edgeecguagbe.com…
- Read msv.edgeecguagbe.com
- Connected to msv.edgeecguagbe.com…
Does this sound like your experience, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the msv.edgeecguagbe.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no use contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The msv.edgeecguagbe.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the msv.edgeecguagbe.com message in this blog post.
If you have been following this blog already know this, but if you are new: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab machines and wilfully installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the actions on these machines 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 installs additional potentially unwanted programs on the machines. I first observed the msv.edgeecguagbe.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.
msv.edgeecguagbe.com was registered on 2015-03-18. msv.edgeecguagbe.com resolves to the 81.95.152.222 IP address.
So, how do you remove msv.edgeecguagbe.com from your browser? On the machine where msv.edgeecguagbe.com showed up in the status bar I had SalePlus, IStart 5.3.7 and YouTubeAdBlocke installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from msv.edgeecguagbe.com.
The issue with statusbar messages like 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 statusbar messages.
So, what can be done? To remove msv.edgeecguagbe.com you need to review your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
The first thing I would do to remove msv.edgeecguagbe.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 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 shady listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started seeing the msv.edgeecguagbe.com status bar messages.
Then I would check the browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often show up under the add-ons menu in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?
I think you will be able to identify and uninstall the potentially unwanted program with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’ve developed since 2006. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve identified 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 crippled like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having a mess figuring out if a file is clean or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:
Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop msv.edgeecguagbe.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!