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

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

Here’s how the bnk.annoysalbania.com statusbar showed up in my network log:

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

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

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

If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab systems and purposely installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. I’ve been observing the behaviour on these systems 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 auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional software on the computers. I first noticed bnk.annoysalbania.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab systems.

bnk.annoysalbania.com resolves to 37.58.67.154.

So, how do you remove bnk.annoysalbania.com from your web browser? On the machine where bnk.annoysalbania.com showed up in the status bar I had Web United, SpeeditApp and Web Bar installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from bnk.annoysalbania.com.

The issue with this type of status bar message is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program running on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove bnk.annoysalbania.com you need to examine your system for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Examine what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. How about your add-ons that you have in your browser. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not 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 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 bnk.annoysalbania.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!