This page shows how to remove yaa.blfyuefyset.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just see yaa.blfyuefyset.com in the status bar or the network log of your web browser and wonder where it came from? Or did yaa.blfyuefyset.com show up while you search for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?
Here is how the yaa.blfyuefyset.com connection looked like on my machine when I examined the network log:
The connection was done while I did a Google search. I’ve noticed that other bloggers say that pop-ups are loaded from this domain, but I have not seen any yet when I tested it. However, there were lots of pop-ups from http://yxo.warmportrait.com.
The following are some of the statusbar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for yaa.blfyuefyset.com…
- Transferring data from yaa.blfyuefyset.com…
- Looking up yaa.blfyuefyset.com…
- Read yaa.blfyuefyset.com
- Connected to yaa.blfyuefyset.com…
Does this sound like your experience, you probably have some adware installed on your system that makes the yaa.blfyuefyset.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The yaa.blfyuefyset.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the yaa.blfyuefyset.com removal in this blog post.
For those that are new to the blog: Not long ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and knowingly installed some adware programs on them. I have been monitoring 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 adware auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first found the yaa.blfyuefyset.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.
yaa.blfyuefyset.com was registered on 2015-01-05. yaa.blfyuefyset.com resolves to the 5.153.38.134 IP address. The domain is protected by WHOISGUARD, INC.
So, how do you remove yaa.blfyuefyset.com from your web browser? On the machine where yaa.blfyuefyset.com showed up in the status bar I had CheckMeUp installed. I removed it with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from yaa.blfyuefyset.com.
The yaa.blfyuefyset.com domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:
The issue with this type of status bar message is that it can be caused by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my computer. I think that adware such as SaferSurf, NewPlayer, BlockAndSurf and SpeedCheck can also be responsible for yaa.blfyuefyset.com appearing in the browser. And there are probably other variants too. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.
To remove yaa.blfyuefyset.com you need to examine your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
- 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 check the web browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
- If that does not help, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’m working on that scans your computer at lots of locations, such as web 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:
Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop yaa.blfyuefyset.com? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!