This page shows how to remove tks.flashecghagat.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Does this sound like your story? You see tks.flashecghagat.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing sites that generally don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the tks.flashecghagat.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?
Here’s a screenshot of tks.flashecghagat.com when it showed up on my computer in the network log:
The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for tks.flashecghagat.com…
- Transferring data from tks.flashecghagat.com…
- Looking up tks.flashecghagat.com…
- Read tks.flashecghagat.com
- Connected to tks.flashecghagat.com…
If you also see this on your machine, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the tks.flashecghagat.com domain appear in your web browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the web site you were browsing. The tks.flashecghagat.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the tks.flashecghagat.com removal in this blog post.
For those that are new to the blog: Not long ago I dedicated some of my lab computers and wilfully installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been observing the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of adverts that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program auto-updates, or if it downloads additional potentially unwanted programs on the computers. I first observed the tks.flashecghagat.com in Mozilla Firefox’s statusbar on one of these lab computers.
tks.flashecghagat.com resolves to the 81.95.152.219 address. tks.flashecghagat.com was created on 2015-03-18.
So, how do you remove tks.flashecghagat.com from your browser? On the machine where tks.flashecghagat.com showed up in the status bar I had SalePlus, IStart 5.3.7 and YouTubeAdBlocke installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from tks.flashecghagat.com.
The problem 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.
So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove tks.flashecghagat.com you need to review your computer for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
The first thing I would do to remove tks.flashecghagat.com is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows Operating System 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 dubious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed approximately about the same time as you started getting the tks.flashecghagat.com status bar messages.
Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often show up under the add-ons menu 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 uninstall 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’ve developed since 2006. Freefixer is a tool built to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down 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 deciding if a file is clean or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:
Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop tks.flashecghagat.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!