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

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

Here’s a screenshot of pstatic.kingtopdeals.com when it showed up on my computer:

(Sorry for the watermarks. Need to add them to prevent the most blatant attempts of other bloggers using my screenshots without attribution)

Update Oct 15 2015: I’ve also seen the istatic.kingtopdeals.com subdomain in use:

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

• Waiting for pstatic.kingtopdeals.com…
• Transferring data from pstatic.kingtopdeals.com…
• Looking up pstatic.kingtopdeals.com…
• Read pstatic.kingtopdeals.com
• Connected to pstatic.kingtopdeals.com…

Does this sound like your computer, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the pstatic.kingtopdeals.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The pstatic.kingtopdeals.com status bar notifications are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the pstatic.kingtopdeals.com removal in this blog post.

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

pstatic.kingtopdeals.com was created on 2015-05-27. kingtopdeals.com resolves to 104.31.90.113 and so does pstatic.kingtopdeals.com.

So, how do you remove pstatic.kingtopdeals.com from your browser? On the machine where pstatic.kingtopdeals.com showed up in the status bar I had WNet, CashReminder, ActSys and PlainSavings installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from pstatic.kingtopdeals.com.

The bad news with this type of status bar message 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 pstatic.kingtopdeals.com you need to check your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove pstatic.kingtopdeals.com is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open 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 dubious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed about the same time as you started getting the pstatic.kingtopdeals.com status bar messages.

Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often appear under the add-ons menu in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. 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 started develop about 8 years ago. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually find and remove 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 problems deciding if a file is safe or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your web browser with a page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:

Did this blog post help you to remove pstatic.kingtopdeals.com? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!