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

Did you just interrupt your work because you noticed vwc.avaemgbagee.com in your browser’s status bar? You are not alone. I also got the vwc.avaemgbagee.com status bar message while browsing. Please read on…

Here is how the vwc.avaemgbagee.com status bar message looked like on my system:

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

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

If this description sounds like your experience, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the vwc.avaemgbagee.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The vwc.avaemgbagee.com statusbar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the vwc.avaemgbagee.com removal in this blog post.

If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: Not long ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and deliberately installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been tracking 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, or if it downloads additional potentially unwanted programs on the machines. I first spotted the vwc.avaemgbagee.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.

vwc.avaemgbagee.com was created on 2015-03-18. vwc.avaemgbagee.com resolves to 81.95.152.222.

So, how do you remove vwc.avaemgbagee.com from your browser? On the machine where vwc.avaemgbagee.com showed up in the status bar I had YouTubeAdBlocke, IStart 5.3.7 and SalePlus installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from vwc.avaemgbagee.com.

It seems as vwc.avaemgbagee.com is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The problem 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 on my computer. 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 vwc.avaemgbagee.com you need to examine your computer for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove vwc.avaemgbagee.com is to examine the software 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 OS 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 some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started observing the vwc.avaemgbagee.com status bar messages.

The next thing to check would be your web browser’s add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often appear under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something 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 started develop about 8 years ago. It’s a tool built to manually track down and remove 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 difficulties figuring out if a file is legitimate or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional information 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 vwc.avaemgbagee.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!