A malicious web server hides behind the address searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net. This server is the source of many unexpected and random ads showing in computers what have been infected with an adware. This server hosts and redirects towards ads normally offering some kind of deceiving information promoting scareware. A scareware is a program that attempts to convince you of some dangerous problem you’re computer is supposed to have so you pay for their services… in other words you end up paying for a software you didn’t need at all.
This website attempts to convince us of its legitimacy by taking a domain close to a-akamaihd.net which is used by Facebook to host their user’s pictures.
This is not the first time we report this kind of problem, almost 2 years ago we covered the issue of rvzr-a.akamaihd.net, another website with similar behaviour; what we see today is just a change in the sub-domain.
With the exception of user’s with a solid technical knowledge, removing searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net proves to be quite difficult, and the fact that most antivirus software don’t detect nor protect against this kind of infections makes it even more difficult.
After a quick search on Google, we can find many websites offering removal solutions for searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net, but be careful because most of them are fake security blogs and all they aim at is to force you to buy a tool that proves to be useless in the end. You don’t need to spend anything whatsoever to remove searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net, below we recommend 100% free software to achieve a complete and effective removal.
How to remove searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net ?
Remove searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a useful tool developed to delete unwanted toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner will require no set up and can be ran in a instant to examine your system.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net with Junkware Removal Tool
Junkware Removal Tool is a security utility that searches for and removes common adware, toolbars, and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) from your computer. A common tactics among freeware publishers is to offer their products for free, but bundle them with PUPs in order to earn revenue. This tool will help you remove these types of programs.
- Download Junkware Removal Tool (Official link and direct-download) :
Download Junkware Removal Tool - Select JRT.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator
- If User Account Control asks you to allow JRT.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue..
- Close all your browsers, save any work and then press any key to continue.
- When Junkware Removal Tool is done scanning and removing malicious items from your computer a logfile will open.
Remove searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
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