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

Does this sound like your story? You see webunited-a.akamaihd.net in your web browser’s status bar while browsing websites that in general don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the webunited-a.akamaihd.net domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?

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

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

If this description sounds like your machine, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the webunited-a.akamaihd.net domain appear in your browser. Don’t blame the people that owns the site you were at when you first spotted webunited-a.akamaihd.net in the status bar. They are most likely not responsible, but from the potentially unwanted program that’s running on your computer. I’ll try help you with the webunited-a.akamaihd.net removal in this blog post.

Those that have been following this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and intentionally installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. I’ve been monitoring the actions on these computers 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 additional potentially unwanted programs on the computers. I first spotted the webunited-a.akamaihd.net in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.

webunited-a.akamaihd.net resolves to 184.51.126.81.

So, how do you remove webunited-a.akamaihd.net from your web browser? On the machine where webunited-a.akamaihd.net showed up in the status bar I had Web United, Web Bar and SpeeditApp installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from webunited-a.akamaihd.net.

So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove webunited-a.akamaihd.net you need to review your computer for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. How about your browser add-ons. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, 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:

   

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

Thank you!