This page shows how to remove endall41-q.apollocdn.com from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Sound familiar? You see endall41-q.apollocdn.com in your browser’s status bar while browsing sites that in general don’t load any content from third party domains. Maybe the endall41-q.apollocdn.com domain show up when performing a search at the Google.com search engine?
Here is how the endall41-q.apollocdn.com connection looked like in my network log:
Here are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser’s status bar:
- Waiting for endall41-q.apollocdn.com…
- Transferring data from endall41-q.apollocdn.com…
- Looking up endall41-q.apollocdn.com…
- Read endall41-q.apollocdn.com
- Connected to endall41-q.apollocdn.com…
If this description sounds like your experience, you probably have some adware installed on your machine that makes the endall41-q.apollocdn.com domain appear in your browser. There’s no use contacting the owners of the web site you currently were browsing. The endall41-q.apollocdn.com statusbar messages are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the endall41-q.apollocdn.com message in this blog post.
I found endall41-q.apollocdn.com on one of the lab machines where I have some adware running. I’ve talked about this in some of the previous blog posts. The adware was installed on purpose, and from time to time I check if something new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.
endall41-q.apollocdn.com resolves to the 54.204.24.205 address. I’ve also seen the s.apollocdn.com subdomain in use.
So, how do you remove endall41-q.apollocdn.com from your browser? On the machine where endall41-q.apollocdn.com showed up in the status bar I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the web browser from loading data from endall41-q.apollocdn.com.
The issue with status bar notifications such as this one is that it can be caused by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my machine. 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 endall41-q.apollocdn.com removal:
The first thing I would do to remove endall41-q.apollocdn.com is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open 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 suspect 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 observing the endall41-q.apollocdn.com status bar messages.
Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons dialog in Chrome, Firefox, 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 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 many years ago. Freefixer is a tool built to manually track down and uninstall 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 crippled like many other removal tools out there. It won’t require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having difficulties figuring out if a file is clean or unsafe in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your web browser with a page which contains more information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:
Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop endall41-q.apollocdn.com? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.
Thank you!