{"id":7572,"date":"2015-08-27T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T12:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=7572"},"modified":"2015-09-27T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T12:26:42","slug":"remove-feed-k1wmm-com-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-feed-k1wmm-com-from-firefox-chrome-and-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove feed.k1wmm.com from Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to <strong>remove feed.k1wmm.com<\/strong> from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Does this sound familiar? You see <strong>feed.k1wmm.com<\/strong> in your browser&#8217;s <strong>statusbar<\/strong> while browsing at web sites that in general don&#8217;t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the feed.k1wmm.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/feed.k1wmm.com-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/feed.k1wmm.com-.png\" alt=\"feed.k1wmm.com\" width=\"732\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/feed.k1wmm.com-.png 732w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/feed.k1wmm.com--300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Sorry for the watermarks. Need to add them to prevent the most blatant attempts of other bloggers using my screenshots without attribution)<\/p>\n<p>It noticed\u00a0k1wmm.com in the status bar while browsing at VirusTotal.com.<\/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 feed.k1wmm.com&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Transferring data from feed.k1wmm.com&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Looking up feed.k1wmm.com&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Read feed.k1wmm.com<\/li>\n<li>Connected to feed.k1wmm.com&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you also see this on your computer, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the feed.k1wmm.com domain appear in your browser. There&#8217;s no use contacting the owners of the web site you were browsing. The feed.k1wmm.com statusbar messages are not coming from them. I&#8217;ll do my best to help you <strong>remove the feed.k1wmm.com message<\/strong> in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: Not long ago I dedicated a few of my lab machines and intentionally installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. I&#8217;ve been following the actions on these machines to see what kinds of advertisements, if any, 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 software on the systems. I first found feed.k1wmm.com in Mozilla Firefox&#8217;s status bar on one of these lab computers.<\/p>\n<p>k1wmm.com resolves to the 107.20.180.9 IP address and feed.k1wmm.com to 107.20.184.136. feed.k1wmm.com was registered on 2015-03-09.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove feed.k1wmm.com<\/strong> from your browser? On the machine where feed.k1wmm.com showed up in the status bar I had <a title=\"Remove Windows Menager.exe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/Windows%20menager.exe-196920\/\">Windows Menager<\/a>, <a title=\"Remove SmartComp Safe Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-jelbrus-secure-web-adware\/\">SmartComp Safe Network<\/a>, gosearch.me and <a title=\"How To Remove mlwps.exe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/mlwps.exe-174582\/\">Live Malware Protection<\/a> installed. I removed them with <a title=\"The freeware FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> and that stopped the browser from loading data from feed.k1wmm.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2015-10.27:<\/strong> Judging from Alexa&#8217;s traffic rank, feed.k1wmm.com is getting quite a lot of traffic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k1wmm.com-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k1wmm.com-.png\" alt=\"k1wmm.com\" width=\"594\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k1wmm.com-.png 594w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k1wmm.com--300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Alexa traffic chart, it appears that traffic skyrocketed at the end of August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this type of statusbar message 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 solve the problem? To remove feed.k1wmm.com you need to review your system 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 feed.k1wmm.com<\/strong> is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the &#8220;Uninstall programs&#8221; dialog. You can reach this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows Operating System 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 strange-looking 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 approximately about the same time as you started getting the feed.k1wmm.com status bar messages.<\/p>\n<p>Then I would check the browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often show up under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, 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 you will be able to find 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\" 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 about 8 years ago. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you&#8217;ve tracked down 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 crippled 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 problems deciding if a file is legit or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer&#8217;s 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 information 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 this blog post help you to remove feed.k1wmm.com? 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 feed.k1wmm.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Does this sound familiar? You see feed.k1wmm.com in your browser&#8217;s statusbar while browsing at web sites that in general don&#8217;t load any content from third party domains. 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