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

Did you just see cdn.adsrt.com in the status bar of your browser and wonder where it came from? Or did cdn.adsrt.com show up while you searched for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google.com search engine?

Here’s how the cdn.adsrt.com statusbar message looked like when I got it on my machine:

I noticed adsrt.com in the status bar while searching from Firefox’ search field.

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

• Waiting for cdn.adsrt.com…
• Transferring data from cdn.adsrt.com…
• Looking up cdn.adsrt.com…
• Read cdn.adsrt.com
• Connected to cdn.adsrt.com…

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you probably have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the cdn.adsrt.com domain appear in your browser. So don’t flame the people that owns the web site you were at when you first spotted cdn.adsrt.com in the status bar. They are probably not responsible, but from the potentially unwanted program that’s installed on your computer. I’ll do my best to help you with the cdn.adsrt.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and purposely installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. Since then I have been observing the behaviour on these machines to see what kinds of advertisements, if any, that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program updates itself, or if it downloads additional software on the machines. I first found cdn.adsrt.com in Mozilla Firefox’s status bar on one of these lab machines.

cdn.adsrt.com resolves to 54.230.193.203. cdn.adsrt.com was created on 2015-09-01.

So, how do you remove cdn.adsrt.com from your browser? On the machine where cdn.adsrt.com showed up in the status bar I had CashReminder, ActSys, PlainSavings and WNet installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the browser from loading data from cdn.adsrt.com.

The problem with status bar notifications 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.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the cdn.adsrt.com removal:

The first thing I would do to remove cdn.adsrt.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 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 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 seeing the cdn.adsrt.com status bar messages.

Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Potentially unwanted programs often appear under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users 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 many 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 will not require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having problems determining if a file is legitimate or potentially unwanted 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:

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

Thank you!