{"id":4503,"date":"2015-02-04T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2015-02-14T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T14:37:00","slug":"remove-positivefinds-a-akamaihd-net-firefox-chrome-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-positivefinds-a-akamaihd-net-firefox-chrome-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to <strong>remove positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Did you just see <strong>positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> in the <strong>statusbar<\/strong> of your browser and ponder where it came from? Or did positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net show up while you searched for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google search engine?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screen capture of <strong>positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> when it showed up on my computer when I did a Google search:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4504 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net-.png\" alt=\"positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net\" width=\"369\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net-.png 369w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net--300x78.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following are some of the statusbar messages you may see in your browser&#8217;s status bar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Waiting for positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Transferring data from positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Looking up positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Read positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net<\/li>\n<li>Connected to positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does this sound like your machine, you have the\u00a0<a title=\"How To Remove The Positive Finds Adware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-the-positive-finds-adware\/\">Positive Finds Adware<\/a> installed on your system that makes the positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net domain appear in your browser. Contacting the owner of the website you were browsing would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net status bar messages. I&#8217;ll try help you to <strong>remove the positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> statusbar messages in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Those that have been following this blog already know this, but here we go: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and knowingly installed some adware programs on them. Since then I&#8217;ve been tracking the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I&#8217;m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself automatically, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the computers. I first noticed the positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net in Mozilla Firefox&#8217;s status bar on one of these lab machines. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of\u00a0positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net in the network log:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net-connection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net-connection.png\" alt=\"positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net connection\" width=\"671\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net-connection.png 671w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net-connection-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> from your browser? As I said earlier in the post, I had the Positive Finds installed. I removed it with <a title=\"More info on FreeFixer and download link here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> and that stopped the browser from loading data from positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net.<\/p>\n<p>You can also \u00a0<strong>remove positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong>\u00a0by opening the &#8220;Uninstall programs&#8221; dialog. You can open this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows OS you can just type in &#8220;uninstall&#8221; in the Control Panel&#8217;s search field to find that dialog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png\" alt=\"Uninstall a program search\" width=\"471\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png 471w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the &#8220;<strong>Uninstall a program<\/strong>&#8221; link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-uninstall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-uninstall.png\" alt=\"Positive Finds uninstall\" width=\"657\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-uninstall.png 657w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-uninstall-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can uninstall Positive Finds there.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to remove positivefinds-a.akamaihd.net from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. 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