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

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

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

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

Does this sound like your experience, you apparently have some potentially unwanted program installed on your system that makes the apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net domain appear in your browser. So there’s no use contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net removal in this blog post.

I found apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net and api.webwaltz.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 anything new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net resolves to the 23.62.6.88 address. api.webwaltz.net resolves to 70.186.131.239.

Update 2015-03-19: Noticed a connection to wwwwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net too.

So, how do you remove apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net from your browser? On the machine where apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net showed up in the status bar I had PriceFountain, SpeedChecker, YTDownloader and WebWaltz installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net. Most likely, WebWaltz was responsible for the apiwebwaltznet-a connection.

The problem with status bar messages like this one 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.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net 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 apiwebwaltznet-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 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 shady listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed about the same time as you started observing the apiwebwaltznet-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages.

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

I think you 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 about 8 years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually find and remove 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 crippled 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 problems determining if a file is safe or potentially unwanted in FreeFixer’s 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 very useful:

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Thank you!