This page shows how to remove srv4pub.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Did you just see srv4pub.com in the status bar of your browser and wonder where it came from? Or did srv4pub.com show up while you searched for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google.com search engine?

Here’s a screen dump of srv4pub.com when it showed up on my computer:

I noticed the status bar message while using Firefox’ search field.

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

• Waiting for srv4pub.com…
• Transferring data from srv4pub.com…
• Looking up srv4pub.com…
• Read srv4pub.com
• Connected to srv4pub.com…

Does this sound like what you see your system, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the srv4pub.com domain appear in your web browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The srv4pub.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the srv4pub.com status bar messages in this blog post.

Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated some of my lab machines and wilfully installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been observing the actions on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements, if any, that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program updates itself automatically, or if it downloads and installs additional software on the machines. I first found srv4pub.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.

srv4pub.com resolves to the 173.192.117.116 IP address. srv4pub.com was created on 2014-11-20.

So, how do you remove srv4pub.com from your web browser? On the machine where srv4pub.com showed up in the statusbar I had CashReminder, WNet, ActSys and PlainSavings installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from srv4pub.com.

The issue with status bar notifications like the one described in this blog post is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program that’s installed on my machine. 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 srv4pub.com removal:

The first thing I would do to remove srv4pub.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 Operating System 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 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 observing the srv4pub.com statusbar messages.

Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often appear under the add-ons menu in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to track down and remove 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 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 purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having problems determining if a file is clean or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your browser with a page which contains additional information 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 srv4pub.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!