Remove d.turn.com from Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer

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

Does this sound familiar? You see d.turn.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing at sites that usually don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the d.turn.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here’s how the d.turn.com status bar message looked like when I got it on my computer:

d.turn.com

As you can see, this happened while I was searching at Google’s search engine.

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

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

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you presumably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the d.turn.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The d.turn.com status bar notifications are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the d.turn.com message in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab computers and intentionally installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. I’ve been following 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 auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional software on the systems. I first found d.turn.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.

d.turn.com resolves to the 50.116.194.23 IP address.

So, how do you remove d.turn.com from your browser? On the machine where d.turn.com showed up in the status bar I had SalePlus, YouTubeAdBlocke and IStart 5.3.7 installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from d.turn.com.

The bad news 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 on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

So, what can be done? To remove d.turn.com you need to examine your system for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

  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 browsers. Anything in the list 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:

    FreeFixer More Info link example
    An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.

Did this blog post help you to remove d.turn.com? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!

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