Remove hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

This page shows how to remove hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Sound familiar? You see hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net in your web browser’s status bar or in the network log while browsing on sites that mostly don’t load any content from third party domains. Perhaps the hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net domain appear when performing a search at the Google search engine?

Here’s a screen capture of hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net when it showed up on my system in the network log when I did a Google search:

hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net connection

When I visited the web site, I was greeted with the following message:

Thank you for your interest in Easyinline. This product has been discontinued.

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

  • Waiting for hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net…
  • Transferring data from hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net…
  • Looking up hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net…
  • Read hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net
  • Connected to hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net…

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you almost certainly have some adware or some other type of potentially unwanted software installed on your computer that makes the hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net domain appear in your web browser. Contacting the owner of the site you were browsing would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net status bar notifications. I’ll try help you to remove the hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and deliberately installed some adware programs on them. Since then 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 adware auto-updates, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first spotted the hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.

hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net resolves to 23.62.7.40.

So, how do you remove hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net from your web browser? On the machine where hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net showed up in the status bar I had Taplika and Clock Hand installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net.

The issue with status bar messages like the one described in this blog post is that it can be caused by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the statusbar messages.

So, what can be done? To remove hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net you need to examine your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows Operating System you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:
Uninstall a program search

Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:
Uninstall a program dialog

Do you see something suspicious 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 hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages.

Then you can examine you web browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?
Firefox add-ons manager

I think most users will be able to identify and remove the adware with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I started develop about 8 years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve identified 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 down like many other removal tools out there. It won’t require you to pay a fee 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 unsafe in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

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

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop hdapp1006-a.akamaihd.net? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!