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

Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see bogots.com in your browser’s statusbar while browsing websites that usually don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the bogots.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

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

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

If you also see this on your machine, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the bogots.com domain appear in your web browser. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the web site you currently were browsing. The bogots.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the bogots.com removal in this blog post.

I found bogots.com on one of the lab computers where I have some potentially unwanted programs running. I’ve talked about this in some of the previous blog posts. The potentially unwanted programs was installed on purpose, and from time to time I check if something new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the web browsers, injected ads on site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

bogots.com resolves to the 89.30.141.30 address. bogots.com was registered on 2009-03-10. There’s a bunch of other sites on the same IP:

• dounty.com
• pesquisa.ninja
• vancouver.craigslist.ca
• safesearch.co
• zwiiky.com
• pesquisa.gratis

So, how do you remove bogots.com from your browser? On the machine where bogots.com showed up in the status bar I had WNet, CashReminder, ActSys and PlainSavings installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from bogots.com.

The issue with status bar messages such as 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 status bar messages.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the bogots.com removal:

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. You can also examine the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, 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 bogots.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!