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

Does this sound like your story? You see ert.fearfromnone.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing on sites that usually don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the ert.fearfromnone.com domain show up when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here’s a screenshot of ert.fearfromnone.com when it showed up on my system:

(Sorry for the large number of watermarks. If I don’t add them, the screenshot will be used without attribution at some other blogs)

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

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

If this description sounds like your machine, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the ert.fearfromnone.com domain appear in your web browser. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the website you were browsing. The ert.fearfromnone.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the ert.fearfromnone.com removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Not long ago I dedicated some of my lab computers and intentionally installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. I have been monitoring 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 automatically, or if it downloads additional software on the computers. I first spotted ert.fearfromnone.com in Mozilla Firefox’s statusbar on one of these lab machines.

ert.fearfromnone.com resolves to the 8.34.112.226 IP address. ert.fearfromnone.com was registered on 2015-01-05.

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

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

The problem with status bar messages like this one 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 ert.fearfromnone.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. How about your add-ons you have in your web browsers. Anything in the list 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:

   

Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop ert.fearfromnone.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!