This page shows how to remove hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Did you just see hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net in the status bar of your browser or in your network log and ponder where it came from? Or did hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net show up while you search for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?
Here’s a screenshot of hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net when it showed up in my network logger, while I did a search at Google:
Here are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net…
- Transferring data from hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net…
- Looking up hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net…
- Read hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net
- Connected to hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net…
The actual URL was https://hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net/scripts/3pSD.js, and if you load it, some javascript code is returned. That code mentions a few other domains: jsl.infostatsvc.com, ajax.googleapis.com, api.crtinv.com, c.ztstatic.com and tap.more-results.net.
If this sounds like what you are seeing on your computer, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your machine that makes the hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net domain appear in your browser. Don’t flame the people that runs the web site you were at when you first spotted hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net in the status bar. They are most likely not responsible, but from the potentially unwanted program that’s installed on your computer. I’ll try help you with the hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net removal in this blog post.
For those that are new to the blog: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab computers and intentionally installed some potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been observing the actions on these machines to see what kinds of ads that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program auto-updates, or if it installs additional potentially unwanted programs on the computers. I first noticed the hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab computers.
hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net resolves to 23.62.6.155.
So, how do you remove hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net from your browser? On the machine where hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net showed up in the status bar I had BlockAndSurf, TinyWallet and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net.
The problem with this type of statusbar message is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program running on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.
So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net you need to review your computer for potentially unwanted programs and uninstall them. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:
The first thing I would do to remove hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net is to examine the programs 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 Operating System 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 dubious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed approximately about the same time as you started getting the hdapp1020-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages.
The next thing to check would be your web browser’s add-ons. Potentially unwanted program often appear under the add-ons menu in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?
I think you will be able to identify and uninstall 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 about 8 years ago. Freefixer is a tool built to manually track down and remove 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 will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having issues determining if a file is clean or potentially unwanted in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:
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