{"id":6666,"date":"2015-06-15T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:57:35","slug":"remove-lnkr-us-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-lnkr-us-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove lnkr.us from Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to <strong>remove lnkr.us<\/strong> from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Does this sound like your story? You see <strong>lnkr.us<\/strong> in your browser&#8217;s <strong>status bar<\/strong> while browsing at sites that mostly don&#8217;t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the lnkr.us domain show up when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?<\/p>\n<p>Here is how \u00a0lnkr.us appeared on my machine, while I did a search at Google:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lnkr.us_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lnkr.us_.png\" alt=\"lnkr.us\" width=\"424\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lnkr.us_.png 424w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lnkr.us_-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser&#8217;s status bar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Waiting for lnkr.us&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Transferring data from lnkr.us&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Looking up lnkr.us&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Read lnkr.us<\/li>\n<li>Connected to lnkr.us&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this description sounds like your system, you presumably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the lnkr.us domain appear in your browser. There&#8217;s no use contacting the owners of the website you were browsing. The lnkr.us status bar messages are not coming from them. I&#8217;ll try help you to <strong>remove the lnkr.us<\/strong> statusbar messages in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>I found lnkr.us on one of the lab computers where I have some potentially unwanted programs running. I&#8217;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 web site that usually don&#8217;t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.<\/p>\n<p>lnkr.us resolves to the 144.76.70.50 address. lnkr.us was created on 2013-12-19. The domain is registered by\u00a0Sergei\u00a0Filov, located in Kiev, Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove lnkr.us<\/strong> from your browser? On the machine where lnkr.us showed up in the status bar I had <a title=\"Remove NetMon - netmon.exe Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-netmon-netmon-exe-removal-instructions\/\">NetMon<\/a> and <a title=\"Remove Jelbrus Secure Web Adware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-jelbrus-secure-web-adware\/\">Jelbrus Secure Web<\/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 browser from loading data from lnkr.us.<\/p>\n<p>It seems as lnkr.us is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa&#8217;s traffic rank:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lnkr.us-traffic-rank.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lnkr.us-traffic-rank.png\" alt=\"lnkr.us traffic rank\" width=\"577\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lnkr.us-traffic-rank.png 577w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lnkr.us-traffic-rank-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem 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 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>So, what can be done? To remove lnkr.us you need to check your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here&#8217;s my suggested removal procedure:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Examine what programs you have installed in the Add\/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don&#8217;t remember installing or that was recently installed?<\/li>\n<li>You can also review the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don&#8217;t remember installing?<\/li>\n<li>If that does not help, I&#8217;d recommend a scan with <a title=\"About the FreeFixer removal tool\" 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 this blog post help you to remove lnkr.us? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to remove lnkr.us from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Does this sound like your story? You see lnkr.us in your browser&#8217;s status bar while browsing at sites that mostly don&#8217;t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the lnkr.us domain show up when performing a search at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-lnkr-us-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove lnkr.us 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":[684,304,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666"}],"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=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}