This page shows how to remove twenga.com (i180.twenga.com, i181.twenga.com, i01.twenga.com and i00.twenga.com) from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Having difficulties with twenga.com showing up in the lower left corner of your browser? If so, you may have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system. I noticed twenga.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar when doing a search at Google, but I guess twenga.com can show up if you are using Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera too.

Here is how the twenga.com statusbar message looked like on my system:

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

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

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the twenga.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The twenga.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the twenga.com status bar messages in this blog post.

If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and deliberately installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. I have been monitoring the actions on these machines to see what kinds of advertisements, if any, that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program updates itself automatically, or if it downloads additional software on the machines. I first noticed twenga.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.

i180.twenga.com resolves to the 95.211.238.97 IP address and twenga.com to 95.211.238.66.

So, how do you remove twenga.com from your browser? On the machine where twenga.com showed up in the statusbar I had TornTV and CinemaPlus V6 installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from twenga.com.

The issue with status bar messages such as this one is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program on my computer. 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 twenga.com you need to examine your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
2. You can also check the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’m working on that scans your computer at lots of locations, such as web 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 VirusTotal report which will be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop twenga.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!