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

Does this sound familiar? You see bbu.glazetartans.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing on web sites that normally don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the bbu.glazetartans.com domain show up when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here’s how the bbu.glazetartans.com status bar message looked like when I got it on my computer:

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

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

If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the bbu.glazetartans.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner of the website you were browsing would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the bbu.glazetartans.com status bar messages. I’ll try help you to remove the bbu.glazetartans.com status bar messages in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: A little while back I dedicated a few of my lab computers and intentionally installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. I have been monitoring the actions on these machines to see what kinds of ads, 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 machines. I first noticed bbu.glazetartans.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.

bbu.glazetartans.com resolves to the 37.58.67.153 IP address.

So, how do you remove bbu.glazetartans.com from your web browser? On the machine where bbu.glazetartans.com showed up in the status bar I had PrimaryColor, mystartsearch, SSFK.exe, PhaseProfessor, FastSearch, SFKEX64.exe, WebShield, YTDownloader and Wajam installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from bbu.glazetartans.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 running on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

To remove bbu.glazetartans.com you need to examine your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove bbu.glazetartans.com is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach 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 strange-looking 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 bbu.glazetartans.com status bar messages.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often appear under the add-ons dialog in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users 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 about 8 years ago. Freefixer is a tool built to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve identified 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 for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having issues figuring out if a file is clean or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your browser with a page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:

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Thank you!