This page shows how to remove qsu.formulatomato.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just interrupt your work because you noticed qsu.formulatomato.com in your browser’s status bar? You are not alone. I also got the qsu.formulatomato.com status bar message while browsing. Please read on…
Here are some of the statusbar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for qsu.formulatomato.com…
- Transferring data from qsu.formulatomato.com…
- Looking up qsu.formulatomato.com…
- Read qsu.formulatomato.com
- Connected to qsu.formulatomato.com…
If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the qsu.formulatomato.com domain appear in your browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the web site you were browsing. The qsu.formulatomato.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the qsu.formulatomato.com message in this blog post.
If you have been visiting this blog already know this, but if you are new: Not long ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and deliberately installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. I’ve been observing the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of adverts, if any, that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program auto-updates, or if it downloads additional software on the machines. I first observed qsu.formulatomato.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.
qsu.formulatomato.com was registered on 2015-05-13. qsu.formulatomato.com resolves to the 81.95.152.219 IP address.
So, how do you remove qsu.formulatomato.com from your browser? On the machine where qsu.formulatomato.com showed up in the status bar I had BlockAndSurf, TinyWallet and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from qsu.formulatomato.com.
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 running 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 qsu.formulatomato.com removal:
- What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
- You can also examine the add-ons you installed in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
- If that didn’t 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 machine. 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:
An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.
Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop qsu.formulatomato.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!