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

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

Here’s how the abw.reaelgiagfy.com looked like when I got it on my system in the network log:

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

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

Does this sound like your computer, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the abw.reaelgiagfy.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner of the site you were browsing would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the abw.reaelgiagfy.com status bar notifications. I’ll try help you to remove the abw.reaelgiagfy.com status bar messages in this blog post.

If you have been following this blog already know this, but if you are new: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab systems and wilfully installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been following the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of advertisements 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 and installs additional potentially unwanted programs on the machines. I first found the abw.reaelgiagfy.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab systems.

abw.reaelgiagfy.com resolves to the 81.95.152.218 IP address.

So, how do you remove abw.reaelgiagfy.com from your browser? On the machine where abw.reaelgiagfy.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 abw.reaelgiagfy.com.

The problem with status bar messages like this one is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the statusbar messages.

So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove abw.reaelgiagfy.com you need to review your system 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 review the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not help, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down potentially unwanted programs. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can 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 abw.reaelgiagfy.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!