This page shows how to remove app.fastimagecdn.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just see app.fastimagecdn.com in the status bar of your browser and wonder where it came from? Or did app.fastimagecdn.com show up while you search for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?
Here’s how the app.fastimagecdn.com status bar message looked like when I got it on my machine:
It appeared there while I was doing a search at Google.
The following are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for app.fastimagecdn.com…
- Transferring data from app.fastimagecdn.com…
- Looking up app.fastimagecdn.com…
- Read app.fastimagecdn.com
- Connected to app.fastimagecdn.com…
If you also see this on your system, you almost certainly have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the app.fastimagecdn.com domain appear in your web browser. Contacting the owner for the site you were at would be a waste of time. The app.fastimagecdn.com statusbar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the app.fastimagecdn.com removal in this blog post.
Those that have been following this blog already know this, but here we go: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab systems and intentionally installed a few potentially unwanted 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 potentially unwanted program updates itself automatically, or if it downloads additional potentially unwanted programs on the computers. I first noticed the app.fastimagecdn.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.
app.fastimagecdn.com resolves to 54.148.114.143. app.fastimagecdn.com was registered on 2015-01-18.
So, how do you remove app.fastimagecdn.com from your browser? On the machine where app.fastimagecdn.com showed up in the status bar I had istartsurf, Movie Wizard and MedPlayerNewVersion installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from app.fastimagecdn.com.
The issue with status bar messages like the one described in this blog post is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.
To remove app.fastimagecdn.com you need to check your machine for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
The first thing I would do to remove app.fastimagecdn.com is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:
Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:
Do you see something strange-looking listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started getting the app.fastimagecdn.com statusbar messages.
Then I would check the browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often show up under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?
I think most users will be able to identify and remove the potentially unwanted program with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I started develop many years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.
FreeFixer’s removal feature is not locked like many other removal tools out there. It won’t require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having a hard time determining if a file is safe or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:
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