Remove canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net From Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer

This page shows how to remove canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Having troubles with canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net showing up in the lower left corner of your browser? If so, you may have some adware installed on your computer. I noticed canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar when doing a search at Google, but I guess canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net can show up if you are using Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera too.

Here is how the canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net status bar message looked like on my computer:

canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net status bar

 

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

  • Waiting for canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net…
  • Transferring data from canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net…
  • Looking up canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net…
  • Read canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net
  • Connected to canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net…

If this description sounds like your computer, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your system that makes the canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net domain appear in your browser. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages in this blog post.

I found canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net on one of the lab computers where I have some adware running. I’ve talked about this in some of the previous blog posts. The adware 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 browsers, injected ads on site that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net resolves to the 23.62.6.51 IP address.

So, how do you remove canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net from your browser? On the machine where canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net showed up in the status bar I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net.

The problem with status bar notifications such as this one is that it can be caused by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my machine. 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 canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net removal:

The first thing I would do to remove canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open 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:
Uninstall a program search

Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:
Uninstall a program dialog

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 canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages.

Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?
Firefox add-ons manager

I think you will be able to track down and remove the adware with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’ve developed since 2006. It’s a tool built to manually find 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 won’t require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having a mess deciding if a file is clean or adware 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:

FreeFixer More Info link example
An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop canvasdp-a.akamaihd.net? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!