This page shows how to remove adsdelivery1.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Sound familiar? You see adsdelivery1.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing on web sites that typically don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the adsdelivery1.com domain appear when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?

Here’s a screenshot of adsdelivery1.com when it showed up on my computer:

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

• Waiting for adsdelivery1.com…
• Transferring data from adsdelivery1.com…
• Looking up adsdelivery1.com…
• Read adsdelivery1.com
• Connected to adsdelivery1.com…

If this description sounds like your experience, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the adsdelivery1.com domain appear in your browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the web site you currently were browsing. The adsdelivery1.com status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the adsdelivery1.com status bar messages in this blog post.

I found adsdelivery1.com on one of the lab systems where I have some potentially unwanted programs running. I’ve talked about this in some of the previous blog posts. The potentially unwanted programs 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 website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

adsdelivery1.com resolves to 212.124.117.243. adsdelivery1.com was registered on 2013-11-14. The whois info for the domain is protected by Domains By Proxy, LLC.

So, how do you remove adsdelivery1.com from your browser? On the machine where adsdelivery1.com showed up in the status bar I had NetMon and Jelbrus Secure Web installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from adsdelivery1.com.

It seems as adsdelivery1.com is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The issue with this type of status bar message is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the statusbar messages.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove adsdelivery1.com you need to review your system for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Examine 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. You can also check the add-ons you have in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down potentially unwanted programs. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your system. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can 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 adsdelivery1.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!