How to remove htr.cdm1.org redirect [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

The htr.cdm1.org is an one of the many advertising web sites, which can be opened automatically each time you run the internet browser. The reason of automatic opening of this page is an adware (sometimes called ‘ad-supported’ software), which was set on your PC system without your consent. Because, the ad supported software is often used to show a ton of unwanted pop-up ads within the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Edge’s screen. As, the advertisers do not disdain to use any methods to promote their web-sites and attract new users. Below we explain how to get rid of adware and thereby remove htr.cdm1.org annoying ads from your browser.

Most often, the ad supported software affects the most common web-browsers like the Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge. But such the dangerous software as well may infect another browsers by changing its shortcuts (adding an argument such as ‘http://site.address’ into Target field of a internet browser’s shortcut). So every time you start the web-browser, it will redirect to the unwanted htr.cdm1.org site. Even if you setup a new start page, an annoying web page will be the first thing you see when you launch the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Edge.

While your PC is infected with the adware, the Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge may be redirected to htr.cdm1.org unwanted web-site. Of course, the ad supported software may not cause damages to your files or Windows system, but it may open a huge number of unwanted advertisements. These advertisements will be injected within the content of web-pages that are you opening in your web-browser and can be varied: pop-up ads, in-text ads, different sized banners, offers to install an questionable software. The ads will appear on all web sites, including sites where previously you have never seen any advertising banners. In this case, when you open any site, you may see in your internet browser’s status bar the following messages: ‘Waiting for htr.cdm1.org’, ‘Transferring data from htr.cdm1.org’, ‘Looking up htr.cdm1.org’, ‘Read htr.cdm1.org’, ‘Connected to htr.cdm1.org’.

So, obviously, you need to remove the ad supported software as soon as possible. Use the free guide below. This guide will help you clean your system and thereby uninstall the htr.cdm1.org annoying pop-up ads.

How does htr.cdm1.org advertisements get installed onto computer

The adware actively distributed with free software, as a part of the installer of the software. Therefore, it’s very important, when installing an unknown software even downloaded from known or big hosting page, read the Terms of use and the Software license, as well as to choose the Manual, Advanced or Custom installation mode. In this mode, you can disable the installation of unneeded modules and programs and protect your system from the ad supported software infection. Unfortunately, most users when installing unknown software, simply click the Next button, and do not read any information that the free programs displays them during its installation. This leads to the fact that the browser starts to display a large number of the htr.cdm1.org advertisements.

How to manually remove htr.cdm1.org ads

This step-by-step guide will help you remove htr.cdm1.org . These htr.cdm1.org removal steps work for the Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge, as well as every version of Windows operating system. Some of the steps may require you to close the browser or reboot your system. So, bookmark or print it for later reference.

1. Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
2. Remove htr.cdm1.org popup ads from Google Chrome
3. Remove htr.cdm1.org ads from FF
4. Uninstall htr.cdm1.org pop-up ads from Internet Explorer
5. Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove htr.cdm1.org redirect
6. Uninstall unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel

The best way to begin the personal computer cleanup is to remove unknown and suspicious applications. Using the Windows Control Panel you can do this quickly and easily. This step, in spite of its simplicity, should not be ignored, for one simple reason, many free applications at its installation additionally set various unneeded software that most often generate unwanted ads and redirect your browser to htr.cdm1.org page. So, remove the unneeded programs may cleanup your browser from popups, hijackers and so on.

1. If you are using Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 then press Windows key, click Search. Type “Control panel”and press Enter.
2. If you are using Windows XP, Vista, 7, then press “Start” button and click “Control Panel”.
3. It will open the Windows Control Panel.
4. Click “Uninstall a program” under Programs category.
5. You will see a list of all installed programs.
6. Scroll through the all list, and remove suspicious and unknown applications. To quickly find the latest installed applications, we recommend sort programs by date.

See more details in the video instructions below.

Remove htr.cdm1.org popup ads from Google Chrome

Open the Google Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It opens the drop-down menu. Click to Settings option. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Show advanced settings” link. Now scroll down until the Reset settings section is visible, as shown below and click on the Reset settings button. Confirm your action, click on the Reset button.

Remove htr.cdm1.org ads from FF

If the Firefox settings have been changed by the adware, then resetting it to the default state can help you to remove the redirect onto htr.cdm1.org ads.

Run the Firefox and press button to show the Tools menu. It displays the drop-down menu on the right-part of the browser. Click on the Help button (). In the Help menu, select the “Troubleshooting Information” option. Another way to open the “Troubleshooting Information” screen – type about:support in the browser adress bar and press Enter. It will display the “Troubleshooting Information” page. In the upper-right corner of this screen, press the “Refresh Firefox” button. It will show the confirmation dialog box. Click on the “Refresh Firefox” button. The FF will start a task to fix your problems that caused by the adware. Once, it’s done, press the “Finish” button

Uninstall htr.cdm1.org pop-up ads from Internet Explorer

Run Internet Explorer, press . Click “Internet Options” as shown below. In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next press Reset button. The Internet Explorer will open the Reset Internet Explorer settings prompt. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and press Reset button. You will now need to restart your PC system for the changes to take effect. It will restore the IE’s settings to default state, disable ad-supported browser’s extensions and remove the redirect to the htr.cdm1.org annoying site.

Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove htr.cdm1.org redirect

During the installation, the adware may also change the web-browser’s shortcuts, adding an argument like “http://site.address” into the Target field. Due to this, every time you start the internet browser, it will reroute to an annoying ads.

To clear the web-browser shortcut, right-click to it and select Properties. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field. Click inside, you will see a vertical line – arrow pointer, move it (using -> arrow key on your keyboard) to the right as possible. You will see a text that begins with “http://” that has been added here. You need to remove it. When the text is removed, press the OK button. You need to clean all shortcuts of all your web-browsers, as they may be infected too.

Uninstall unwanted Scheduled Tasks

If the annoying htr.cdm1.org page opens automatically on Windows startup or at equal time intervals, then you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and get rid of all the tasks that have been created by ‘ad-supported’ program.

Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard together. This opens a small window that titled as Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and click Enter. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, as shown in the following image.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be open just below automatically. Next, press the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your computer. Found something like “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://htr.cdm1.org”, then you need get rid of it. If you are not sure that executes the task, check it through a search engine. If it is a component of the malicious software, then this task also can be safely removed.

Having defined the task that you want to remove, then click on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as shown below.

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by adware. Once is done, close the Task Scheduler window.

Remove htr.cdm1.org popup ads automatically

You can get rid of htr.cdm1.org ads automatically with a help of Malwarebytes Anti Malware Free. We recommend this free malware removal tool because it can easily remove adware, browser hijackers, potentially unwanted software and toolbars with all their components such as files, folders and registry entries.

Use the link below to download MalwareBytes Anti-malware Free on your computer. Save it on your desktop.

Once the downloading process is finished, close all windows on your PC. Further, start the file named mbam-setup. When a “Security warning” prompt pops up as shown on the screen below, click the Run button.

It will open the “Setup wizard” screen that will assist you install MalwareBytes Anti-malware on the computer. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.

Once setup is finished successfully, press Finish button. Then MalwareBytes Anti-malware will automatically start and you can see its main window as shown in the figure below.

Next, press the “Scan Now” button to start scanning your computer for the adware that cause a redirect to htr.cdm1.org. When a threat is found, the number of the detected objects will change accordingly. Wait until the the scanning is finished. Please be patient.

As the scanning ends, you can check all threats detected on your PC. Make sure all entries have “checkmark” and click “Remove Selected” button.

The MalwareBytes Anti-malware will begin removing htr.cdm1.org pop-up ads and other security threats. Once disinfection is finished, you may be prompted to Restart. I recommend you look at the following video, which completely explains the process of using the Anti-malware to remove ad supported software and other malicious software.

How to stop htr.cdm1.org advertisements

To increase your security and protect your system against new annoying advertisements and malicious web-sites, you need to use an application that blocks access to dangerous ads and web pages. Moreover, the software can block the open of intrusive advertising, which also leads to faster loading of web-sites and reduce the consumption of web traffic.

1. Download AdGuard program using the following link.
   
   

   Adguard download
   26627 downloads
   Version: 6.4
   Author: © Adguard
   Category: Security tools
   Update: November 15, 2018
   
2. After the download is complete, run the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” program window. Follow the prompts.
3. Once the installation is finished, click “Skip” to close the installation program and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” to see an quick tutorial that will help you get to know AdGuard better.
4. In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you start your system, AdGuard will start automatically and block pop-up ads, htr.cdm1.org redirects, as well as other malicious or misleading web-pages. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon , which is located on your Windows desktop.

Uninstall htr.cdm1.org and malicious extensions with AdwCleaner.

If MalwareBytes Anti-malware cannot remove the annoying htr.cdm1.org within the Chrome, Firefox, IE and MS Edge, then we suggests to use the AdwCleaner. AdwCleaner is a free removal tool for adware, browser hijackers, PUPs, toolbars. Also you can ask for help our Myantispyware team below.

Download AdwCleaner from the link below.

Once finished, open a directory in which you saved it. You will see a icon like below.

Double click the AdwCleaner desktop icon. Once this tool is started, you will see a screen like below.

Press “Scan” button to perform a system scan for malicious extensions and the ad supported software which opens the ads from htr.cdm1.org site. Once AdwCleaner has finished, it will display a scan report as shown below.

Review the report and then click “Cleaning” button. It will show a prompt.

Click “OK”. When the cleaning process is finished, AdwCleaner may ask you to reboot your personal computer.

When your PC is started, you will see an AdwCleaner log.

How to ask for help the Myantispyware team

If you are seeking a help for htr.cdm1.org redirect removal then follow these steps.

1. Download HijackThis from the link below and save it to your Desktop.
   

   HijackThis download
   4692 downloads
   Version: 2.0.5
   Author: OpenSource
   Category: Security tools
   Update: November 7, 2015
   
2. Double-click on the HijackThis icon, and click the button labeled “Do a system scan only”.
3. Once the scan is complete, the scan button will read “Save log”, click it. Save this log to your desktop

Create a Myantispyware account here. Once you’ve registered, check your e-mail for a confirmation link, and confirm your account. After that, login.

• Copy and paste the contents of the HijackThis log into your post. If you are posting for the first time, please start a new thread by using the “New Topic” button in the Spyware Removal forum. When posting your HJT log, try to give us some details about your problems, so we can try to help you more accurately.
• Wait for one of our trained “Security Team” or Site Administrator to provide you with knowledgeable assistance tailored to your problem with the annoying htr.cdm1.org redirect.