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

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

Here’s how the static.boostsaves.com appeared in the network log:

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

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

If you also see this on your system, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the static.boostsaves.com domain appear in your browser. So there’s no use contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The static.boostsaves.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the static.boostsaves.com status bar messages in this blog post.

I found static.boostsaves.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 web browsers, injected ads on website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

static.boostsaves.com was registered on 2012-09-07. static.boostsaves.com resolves to the 54.192.195.74 IP address. Here’s some of the WHOIS info:

Registrant Name: Verti Technology Group, Inc.
Registrant Organization: Verti Technology Group, Inc.
Registrant Street: 10900 NE 8th Street
Registrant City: Bellevue
Registrant State/Province: WA
Registrant Postal Code: 98004
Registrant Country: US

So, how do you remove static.boostsaves.com from your browser? On the machine where static.boostsaves.com showed up in the status bar I had TornTV and CinemaPlus V6 installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from static.boostsaves.com.

If you are wondering if there are many others out seeing static.boostsaves.com in the browser, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

The problem with this type of status bar message is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program on my computer. 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 static.boostsaves.com removal:

1. 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?
2. You can also check the add-ons you have in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not 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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