This page shows how to remove shopper.deals-way.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see shopper.deals-way.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing websites that usually don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the shopper.deals-way.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here’s a screenshot of shopper.deals-way.com when it showed up in the network log on my system:

The connection to shopper.deals-way.com was done when I did a search at Google. You can see my search in the Referer HTTP field above.

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

• Waiting for shopper.deals-way.com…
• Transferring data from shopper.deals-way.com…
• Looking up shopper.deals-way.com…
• Read shopper.deals-way.com
• Connected to shopper.deals-way.com…

If this description sounds like your computer, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the shopper.deals-way.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no use contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The shopper.deals-way.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the shopper.deals-way.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but for new visitors: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab machines and intentionally installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I’ve been observing 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 auto-updates, or if it downloads additional potentially unwanted programs on the machines. I first observed the shopper.deals-way.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.

shopper.deals-way.com was created on 2014-06-02. deals-way.com resolves to the 107.180.0.192 IP address and shopper.deals-way.com to 23.253.148.233.

I’ve also seen the dealer.deals-way.com subdomain in use.

So, how do you remove shopper.deals-way.com from your web browser? On the machine where shopper.deals-way.com showed up in the status bar I had SpeeditApp, Web Bar and Web United installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from shopper.deals-way.com.

The problem with status bar 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 status bar messages.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove shopper.deals-way.com you need to review your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Review 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 check the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t 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:

   

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Thank you!