{"id":5356,"date":"2015-02-17T13:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:00:32","slug":"remove-tap-more-results-net-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-tap-more-results-net-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove tap.more-results.net From Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to <strong>remove tap.more-results.net<\/strong> from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tap.more-results.net-....png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tap.more-results.net-....png\" alt=\"tap.more-results.net ...\" width=\"224\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does this sound familiar? You see <strong>tap.more-results.net<\/strong> in your browser&#8217;s <strong>statusbar<\/strong> while browsing web sites that normally don&#8217;t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the tap.more-results.net domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the tap.more-results.net looked like when I got it on my computer. It&#8217;s a screenshot from my network log. It appeared there when I did a Google search:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tap.more-results.net-connection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tap.more-results.net-connection.png\" alt=\"tap.more-results.net connection\" width=\"485\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tap.more-results.net-connection.png 485w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tap.more-results.net-connection-300x44.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/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 tap.more-results.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Transferring data from tap.more-results.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Looking up tap.more-results.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Read tap.more-results.net<\/li>\n<li>Connected to tap.more-results.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does this sound like your computer, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the tap.more-results.net domain appear in your browser. There&#8217;s no use contacting the owners of the site you were browsing. The tap.more-results.net status bar messages are not coming from them. I&#8217;ll do my best to help you <strong>remove the tap.more-results.net message<\/strong> in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and wilfully installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. I have been following the actions on these machines to see what kinds of ads that are displayed. I&#8217;m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program auto-updates, or if it installs additional potentially unwanted programs on the computers. I first observed the tap.more-results.net in Mozilla Firefox&#8217;s status bar on one of these lab computers.<\/p>\n<p>tap.more-results.net was created on 2013-02-26. tap.more-results.net resolves to the 8.25.35.171 address. The WHOIS info is protected by\u00a0Domains By Proxy, LLC.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove tap.more-results.net<\/strong> from your browser? On the machine where tap.more-results.net showed up in the status bar I had <a title=\"Ads By BlockAndSurf - Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/ads-by-blockandsurf-removal\/\">BlockAndSurf<\/a>, <a title=\"TinyWallet - Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-tinywallet\/\">TinyWallet<\/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=\"Read more on FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> and that stopped the web browser from loading data from tap.more-results.net.<\/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 status bar messages.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s my suggestion for the tap.more-results.net removal:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What software do you have installed if you look in the Add\/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don&#8217;t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?<\/li>\n<li>How about your add-ons you installed in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Anything in the list that you don&#8217;t remember installing?<\/li>\n<li>If that didn&#8217;t solve the problem, I&#8217;d recommend a scan with <a title=\"Read more on FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> to manually track down the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I&#8217;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 <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 will be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:\n<p><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><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop tap.more-results.net? 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 tap.more-results.net from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Does this sound familiar? You see tap.more-results.net in your browser&#8217;s statusbar while browsing web sites that normally don&#8217;t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the tap.more-results.net domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine? &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-tap-more-results-net-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove tap.more-results.net From Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[414],"tags":[548,434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}