This page shows how to remove foxi180_c.tlscdn.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just see foxi180_c.tlscdn.com in the status bar of your web browser and ask yourself where it came from? Or did foxi180_c.tlscdn.com show up while you search for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?
The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for foxi180_c.tlscdn.com…
- Transferring data from foxi180_c.tlscdn.com…
- Looking up foxi180_c.tlscdn.com…
- Read foxi180_c.tlscdn.com
- Connected to foxi180_c.tlscdn.com…
If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your system that makes the foxi180_c.tlscdn.com domain appear in your browser. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The foxi180_c.tlscdn.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the foxi180_c.tlscdn.com status bar messages in this blog post.
Those that have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but here we go: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. I have been tracking the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the computers. I first noticed the foxi180_c.tlscdn.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.
foxi180_c.tlscdn.com resolves to the 199.115.115.77 IP address. I’ve also seen a similar domain names such as foxi180_f.tlscdn.com and foxi180_c0.tlscdn.com in use.
So, how do you remove foxi180_c.tlscdn.com from your browser? On the machine where foxi180_c.tlscdn.com showed up in the status bar I had CheckMeUp installed. I removed it with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from foxi180_c.tlscdn.com.
The problem with status bar messages such as this one is that it can be caused by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my computer. I think that adware such as NewPlayer, BlockAndSurf, SaferSurf and SpeedCheck can also be responsible for foxi180_c.tlscdn.com appearing in the web browser. And there are probably other variants too. 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 foxi180_c.tlscdn.com removal:
- 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?
- You can also check the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
- If that didn’t solve the problem, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the adware. 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:
An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.
Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop foxi180_c.tlscdn.com? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!