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

Did you just see apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net in the status bar of your browser and ponder where it came from? Or did apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net show up while you searched for something on one of the big search engines, such as the Google search engine?

Here’s api.plainsavingscenter.com in my network log:

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

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

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

Does this sound like what you see your system, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net domain appear in your browser. So don’t flame the people that runs the site you were at when you first spotted apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net in the status bar. They are probably not responsible, but from the potentially unwanted program that’s running on your machine. I’ll do my best to help you remove the apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net message in this blog post.

I found apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net on one of the lab computers 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 site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net resolves to the 184.51.126.91 address. I’ve also seen wwwplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net in use.

So, how do you remove apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net from your browser? On the machine where apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net showed up in the status bar I had WNet, CashReminder, ActSys and PlainSavings installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net. Based on the name of the domain, it’s probably PlainSavings that was responsible for the connections.

The issue with status bar messages such as this one is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program running 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 apiplainsavingsc-a.akamaihd.net removal:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. You can also check the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that does not 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:

   

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