How to get rid from "ajamaihd" adware from your pc which slow down your network and computer perfomance. :
(About its Parents)
Akamai Technologies is a U.S. Internet Content Delivery Network (CDN) responsible for serving approximately 15-20 percent of all web traffic.Akamai operates a network of servers around the world and rents space to customers who want their web sites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. A CDN receives data and places it on various legitimate servers all over the world. This allows the content (images, music, movies, etc) to load faster because it is delivered to the end user from the nearest server holding the content. Akamai has several CDN networks and akamai.net; akamaiedge.net; akamaihd.net are a few of them.
About its Occupation
Many sites use akamaihd.net as a CDN to speed up their services. For example, if you upload photos on Facebook they are actually uploaded to akamaihd.net. When someone requests to view a Facebook photo the request is sent to the nearest akamaihd server which returns the photo more quickly than a server at a distant location. This is the reason why you may see an address in the status bar (or a javascript file) which indicates "transferring data from fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net" or "fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net" when using some particular sites (i.e. "cdncache1-a.akamaihd.net", "rvzr-a.akamaihd.net", etc) when visiting other websites using Akamai. These addresses are subdomains which show Akamai where visitors go and the percentage of visitors...they are normal but some users have reported this process actually slows their access to social media sites.
This is not taken as malware but as adware but it spoil your search result and overall performance of your system and network.
How to Get Rid from this:
When your pc is infected by this malware (adware) then while browsing u will see suddenly new windows appear , showing ads and other useless webpages. Whenever u open a web page with Firefox/chrome you either get redirected to rvzr-a.akamaihd.net or bombarded with ads which continuously prompt to download an updated media player or buy stupid stuff.
Even after uninstalling and re-installing Firefox it will not go. Using ccleaner and other software it will disappear for some time and then re-appear. I you click on blank area of webpage then also it will open a new site with adds for buying or downlading items on its own.
While looking for solution on net it can intercept and redirect you to irrelevant sites or to some site which shows steps to remove this malware by using some tools which are actually malware like unhackme(it cannot remove malware) . it can send, read your data, it eats your network and computer's performance by downloading unneccessary stuff, opening too many site, by downloading too many thing on ur computer it can crash your pc or can make it too slow. It will redirect you to site which are supported by this adware to increase traffic on their website.
These steps can help you in getting rid from this rogue:
1. In program and features (for uninstalling software, displayed in control panel) look for any new software which is not installed by you and remove or uninstall it. (Result hub etc may appear) remove anyother recent software which looks suspicious and installed on its own,
Now remove any newly installed add-on from browser (Chrome and mozilla). Try to restrt firefox with add-ons disable and refresh firefox (Help -- Firefox heath -- > Restart with Addons disabled and when it shows pop to confirm restart in safe mode or refresh then select refresh)
2. Uninstall any newly installed software which you think might be the culprit.
Clear firefox profiles and create a new firefox profile for use. Search in in appData for word akamai and delete it.
go to regedit and search for akaim and clear the registry whereever it appears. Run a full scan of windows defender and when it completes then check in the details of all Qurantied and detected items which might show u two-three items in both section. Remove these items. then install ccleaner and scan for threat and clean the issues from the scan details. Then click on registry button on ccleaner and scan for issues. clear the items displayed in details.
Now go to firefox and type about:config in the address bar and press enter. click button "i will be careful I promise" then the list of config items will be shown. Again type "akam" and press enter key.
It should show u 3 items which contains the url of this addware like "search-internet-a.akaim" reset these values and if few items doesn;t show reset in context menu(when u right click) then modify the string with blank values.
Again click on Refresh button from help menu and restart firefox. by this time you should have removed it completely from your system.
Additional tips: Sometime on Mac OS these steps can help.
The GoPhoto.it extension is in your home directory, under Library/Application Support/Mozilla/Extensions. The folder called "{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-
Your Library folder is hidden by default on newer versions of Mac OS, the easiest way to get there is to open the terminal and type "open ~/Library".
