Remove client.foxydeal.com From Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer

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

Having problems with client.foxydeal.com showing up in the lower left corner of your browser? If so, you might have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine. I noticed client.foxydeal.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar when doing a search at Google, but I guess client.foxydeal.com can show up if you are using Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera too.

Here’s a screen capture of client.foxydeal.com when it showed up on my machine:

client.foxydeal.com statusbar

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

  • Waiting for client.foxydeal.com…
  • Transferring data from client.foxydeal.com…
  • Looking up client.foxydeal.com…
  • Read client.foxydeal.com
  • Connected to client.foxydeal.com…

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

I found client.foxydeal.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 browsers, injected ads on site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

client.foxydeal.com was registered on 2009-03-02. client.foxydeal.com resolves to the 107.21.244.53 IP address and foxydeal.com to 174.129.217.199.

So, how do you remove client.foxydeal.com from your browser? On the machine where client.foxydeal.com showed up in the status bar I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from client.foxydeal.com.

The issue with this type of status bar message 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 statusbar messages.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the client.foxydeal.com removal:

  1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
  2. How about your add-ons you installed in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
  3. If that didn’t help, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down potentially unwanted programs. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your computer at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can 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.

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Thank you!