This page shows how to remove wnm.heronsquadrupled.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just see wnm.heronsquadrupled.com in the status bar of your browser and ask yourself where it came from? Or did wnm.heronsquadrupled.com show up while you searched for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?
The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for wnm.heronsquadrupled.com…
- Transferring data from wnm.heronsquadrupled.com…
- Looking up wnm.heronsquadrupled.com…
- Read wnm.heronsquadrupled.com
- Connected to wnm.heronsquadrupled.com…
Does this sound like what you see your computer, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the wnm.heronsquadrupled.com domain appear in your browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the web site you currently were browsing. The wnm.heronsquadrupled.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the wnm.heronsquadrupled.com removal in this blog post.
For those that are new to the blog: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab machines and deliberately installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the behaviour 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, or if it installs additional software on the computers. I first found wnm.heronsquadrupled.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.
wnm.heronsquadrupled.com resolves to 37.58.67.152. wnm.heronsquadrupled.com was registered on 2015-07-30. According to DomainTools, riderdismantled.com is also located on that IP.
So, how do you remove wnm.heronsquadrupled.com from your browser? On the machine where wnm.heronsquadrupled.com showed up in the status bar I had Web Bar, SpeeditApp and Web United installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from wnm.heronsquadrupled.com.
The issue with statusbar messages such as 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.
Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the wnm.heronsquadrupled.com removal:
- Review what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don’t remember installing 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 anything that you don’t remember installing?
- If that didn’t solve the problem, 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:
An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.
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