Remove app.nodedomax.com from Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer

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

Does this sound like your story? You see app.nodedomax.com in your web browser’s status bar or in the network log? Here is how the app.nodedomax.com showed up in the network log from my machine:

app.nodedomax.com connection

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

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

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the app.nodedomax.com domain appear in your web browser. So don’t blame the people that owns the website you were at when you first spotted app.nodedomax.com in the statusbar. They are almost certainly not responsible, but from the potentially unwanted program that’s running on your computer. I’ll try help you to remove the app.nodedomax.com status bar messages in this blog post.

I found app.nodedomax.com on one of the lab machines 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 anything 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.

app.nodedomax.com resolves to the 69.16.175.10 IP address. app.nodedomax.com was registered on 2015-03-16. I’ve also seen the logs.nodedomax.com subdomain in use.

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

The bad news 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 that’s installed on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.

So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove app.nodedomax.com you need to examine your computer 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 that you have in your browser. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
  3. If that didn’t solve the problem, 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:

    FreeFixer More Info link example
    An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.

Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop app.nodedomax.com? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!