This page shows how to remove d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Does this sound like your story? You see d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net in your browser’s status bar while browsing at sites that commonly don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here’s how the d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net connection when I got it in the network log on my computer, while searching at Google:

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

• Waiting for d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net…
• Transferring data from d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net…
• Looking up d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net…
• Read d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net
• Connected to d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net…

Does this sound like what you see your system, you presumably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net domain appear in your browser. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the site you currently were browsing. The d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net removal in this blog post.

If you have been visiting this blog already know this, but if you are new: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and knowingly installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. I’ve been tracking the actions 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 auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional potentially unwanted programs on the machines. I first found the d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.

d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net resolves to 205.185.208.11.

So, how do you remove d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net from your browser? On the machine where d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net showed up in the statusbar I had GamesDesktop, istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net.

The issue with statusbar messages like the one described in this blog post 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 statusbar messages.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the d2a8a4q9.ssl.hwcdn.net removal:

1. 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?
2. You can also examine the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see anything 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:

   

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