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

Did you just see mjw.wiekgiagvu.com in the status bar of your browser and wonder where it came from? Or did mjw.wiekgiagvu.com show up while you search for something on one of the big search engines, such as the Google.com search engine?

Here is mjw.wiekgiagvu.com in the network log from my machine:

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

• Waiting for mjw.wiekgiagvu.com…
• Transferring data from mjw.wiekgiagvu.com…
• Looking up mjw.wiekgiagvu.com…
• Read mjw.wiekgiagvu.com
• Connected to mjw.wiekgiagvu.com…

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the mjw.wiekgiagvu.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The mjw.wiekgiagvu.com statusbar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the mjw.wiekgiagvu.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and purposely installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. I’ve been tracking the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’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 machines. I first noticed the mjw.wiekgiagvu.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.

mjw.wiekgiagvu.com resolves to 81.95.152.220.

So, how do you remove mjw.wiekgiagvu.com from your browser? On the machine where mjw.wiekgiagvu.com showed up in the statusbar I had BlockAndSurf, TinyWallet and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from mjw.wiekgiagvu.com.

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 on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove mjw.wiekgiagvu.com you need to check your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove mjw.wiekgiagvu.com is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” 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 “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:

Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:

Do you see something suspicious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed about the same time as you started seeing the mjw.wiekgiagvu.com status bar messages.

Then I would check the browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often show up under the add-ons dialog in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think you will be able to track down and remove the potentially unwanted program with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I started develop many years ago. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.

FreeFixer’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.

And if you’re having troubles deciding if a file is legitimate or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

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Thank you!