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

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

Here’s how the gun.zoofydo.com statusbar message looked like when I got it on my computer’s network log:

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

• Waiting for gun.zoofydo.com …
• Transferring data from gun.zoofydo.com …
• Looking up gun.zoofydo.com …
• Read gun.zoofydo.com
• Connected to gun.zoofydo.com …

If this description sounds like your story, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the gun.zoofydo.com domain appear in your browser. Don’t write angry emails to the website you were browsing, they are almost certainly not responsible for the gun.zoofydo.com status bar messages. The potentially unwanted program on your system is. I’ll do my best to help you with the gun.zoofydo.com removal in this blog post.

I found gun.zoofydo.com on one of the lab machines 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 web browsers, injected ads on web site that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

gun.zoofydo.com was registered on 2015-01-05 and is protected by WhoisGuard INC. The domain resolves to the 81.95.152.219 IP address. According to YouGetSignal’s reverse IP service, ybr.lilyochin.com has also resolved to that IP.

So, how do you remove gun.zoofydo.com from your browser? On the machine where gun.zoofydo.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 gun.zoofydo.com .

The problem with status bar messages like the one described in this blog post 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 gun.zoofydo.com removal:

1. Check 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?
2. You can also review 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?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, 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 system at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your computer. 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:

   

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

Thank you!