{"id":7199,"date":"2015-08-07T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:57:28","slug":"apigetmyprimaryc-a-akamaihd-net-how-to-remove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/apigetmyprimaryc-a-akamaihd-net-how-to-remove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net &#8211; How To Remove It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to <strong>remove apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Did you just see <strong>apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> in the <strong>status bar<\/strong> of your browser and ask yourself where it came from? Or did apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net show up while you searched for something on one of the major search engines, such as the Google.com search engine?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the status bar messages you may see in your browser&#8217;s status bar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Waiting for apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Transferring data from apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Looking up apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Read apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net<\/li>\n<li>Connected to apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you most likely have some potentially unwanted program installed on your computer that makes the apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net domain appear in your web browser. Don&#8217;t send angry emails to the site you were browsing, they are most likely not responsible for the apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net statusbar messages. The potentially unwanted program on your computer is. I&#8217;ll try help you to <strong>remove the apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> status bar messages in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab systems and intentionally installed a few potentially unwanted programs on them. I have been monitoring the actions on these machines to see what kinds of advertisements, if any, that are displayed. I&#8217;m also looking on other interesting things such as if the potentially unwanted program updates itself automatically, or if it installs additional software on the machines. I first observed apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net in Mozilla Firefox&#8217;s status bar on one of these lab machines.<\/p>\n<p>apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net resolves to the 184.51.126.99 address. I&#8217;ve also seen\u00a0<strong>api.getmyprimarycolor.com<\/strong> in use, which seems to be related.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong> from your browser? On the machine where apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net showed up in the status bar I had WebShield, PrimaryColor, Wajam, PhaseProfessor and FastSearch installed. I removed them 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 apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net. The PrimaryColor adware was most likely responsible for the status bar messages.<\/p>\n<p>The issue with status bar messages like this one is that it can be caused by many variants of potentially unwanted programs, not just the potentially unwanted program that&#8217;s installed on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the status bar messages.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s my suggestion for the apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net removal:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What software do you have installed if you look in the Add\/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don&#8217;t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?<\/li>\n<li>You can also check the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don&#8217;t remember installing?<\/li>\n<li>If that didn&#8217;t solve the problem, I&#8217;d recommend a scan with <a title=\"More info on FreeFixer and download link here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> to manually track down the potentially unwanted program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I&#8217;m working on that scans your computer at lots of locations, such as web browser add-ons, processes, Windows services, recently modified files, etc. If you want to get additional details about a file in the scan result, you can click the More Info link for that file and a web page will open up with a <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a> report which will be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2521\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2521 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-1024x291.png\" alt=\"FreeFixer More Info link example\" width=\"604\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup.png 1262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of FreeFixer&#8217;s &#8220;More Info&#8221; links. Click for full size.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Did you find any potentially unwanted program on your machine? Did that stop apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net? Please post the name of the potentially unwanted program you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page shows how to remove apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Did you just see apigetmyprimaryc-a.akamaihd.net in the status bar of your browser and ask yourself where it came from? 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