{"id":5352,"date":"2015-03-10T00:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T00:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:58:36","slug":"remove-s-lm15d-com-from-mozilla-firefox-google-chrome-and-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-s-lm15d-com-from-mozilla-firefox-google-chrome-and-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove s.lm15d.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to <strong>remove s.lm15d.com<\/strong> from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/s.lm15d.com-status-bar.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/s.lm15d.com-status-bar.png\" alt=\"s.lm15d.com status bar\" width=\"210\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you just interrupt your work because you noticed <strong>s.lm15d.com<\/strong> in your browser&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>status bar<\/strong> or in the network log? You are not alone. I also got the s.lm15d.com status bar message while browsing. Please read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the s.lm15d.com appeared in my network log, while searching for something at\u00a0Google:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/s.lm15d.com-connection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/s.lm15d.com-connection.png\" alt=\"s.lm15d.com connection\" width=\"381\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/s.lm15d.com-connection.png 381w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/s.lm15d.com-connection-300x51.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser&#8217;s status bar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Waiting for s.lm15d.com&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Transferring data from s.lm15d.com&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Looking up s.lm15d.com&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Read s.lm15d.com<\/li>\n<li>Connected to s.lm15d.com&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I visited the URL the following information was returned:<\/p>\n<pre>_GPL.dcc(5**,7**,1**,{\"city\":\"Sk**\",\"country\":\"SE\",\"region\":\"26\",\"org\":\"C** H** **\"})<\/pre>\n<p>It shows my location and my ISP, similar to\u00a0<a title=\"Remove s.trk-u.com from Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-s-trk-u-com-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer\/\">s.trk-u.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this description sounds like your system, you presumably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the s.lm15d.com domain appear in your browser. So there&#8217;s no use contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The s.lm15d.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I&#8217;ll try help you with the <strong>s.lm15d.com removal<\/strong> in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been visiting this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated some of my lab computers and deliberately installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. I have been tracking the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I&#8217;m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program auto-updates, or if it downloads additional potentially unwanted programs on the computers. I first observed the s.lm15d.com in Firefox&#8217;s status bar on one of these lab machines.<\/p>\n<p>s.lm15d.com was registered on yesterday, that is 2015-03-09. s.lm15d.com resolves to 107.22.221.137. The domain in protected by\u00a0Domains By Proxy, LLC.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove s.lm15d.com<\/strong> from your web browser? On the machine where s.lm15d.com showed up in the status bar I had <a title=\"TinyWallet - Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-tinywallet\/\">TinyWallet<\/a>, <a title=\"Ads By BlockAndSurf - Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/ads-by-blockandsurf-removal\/\">BlockAndSurf<\/a> and <a title=\"BrowserWarden Ads - Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-browser-warden\/\">BrowserWarden<\/a> installed. I removed them with <a title=\"More info on FreeFixer and download link here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> and that stopped the web browser from loading data from s.lm15d.com.<\/p>\n<p>The issue with this type of status bar notification is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program that&#8217;s installed on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the statusbar messages.<\/p>\n<p>To remove s.lm15d.com you need to examine your computer for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here&#8217;s my suggested removal procedure:<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I would do to <strong>remove s.lm15d.com<\/strong> is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the &#8220;Uninstall programs&#8221; dialog. You can open this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows you can just type in &#8220;uninstall&#8221; in the Control Panel&#8217;s search field to find that dialog:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png\" alt=\"Uninstall a program search\" width=\"471\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png 471w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the &#8220;<strong>Uninstall a program<\/strong>&#8221; link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-dialog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-dialog.png\" alt=\"Uninstall a program dialog\" width=\"356\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-dialog.png 356w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-dialog-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you see something shady in there or something that you don&#8217;t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the &#8220;<strong>Installed On<\/strong>&#8221; column to see if some program was installed about the same time as you started seeing the s.lm15d.com statusbar messages.<\/p>\n<p>Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often appear under the add-ons menu in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don&#8217;t remember installing?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Firefox-add-ons-manager.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2927 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Firefox-add-ons-manager-300x190.png\" alt=\"Firefox add-ons manager\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Firefox-add-ons-manager-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Firefox-add-ons-manager.png 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think most users will be able to identify and uninstall the potentially unwanted program with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the <a title=\"Read more on FreeFixer here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer removal tool<\/a> to identify and remove the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I started develop many years ago. It&#8217;s a tool built to manually identify and remove unwanted software. When you&#8217;ve found the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.<\/p>\n<p>FreeFixer&#8217;s removal feature is not locked like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re having difficulties figuring out if a file is safe or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the <strong>More Info<\/strong> link for the file. That will open up your browser with a page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a> report which can be very useful:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2521\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2521 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-1024x291.png\" alt=\"FreeFixer More Info link example\" width=\"604\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup.png 1262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of FreeFixer&#8217;s &#8220;More Info&#8221; links. Click for full size.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop s.lm15d.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to remove s.lm15d.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Did you just interrupt your work because you noticed s.lm15d.com in your browser&#8217;s\u00a0status bar or in the network log? You are not alone. I also got the s.lm15d.com status bar message while browsing. 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