2015年2月8日星期日

FastFreeSearch.com Removal Guide - How to remove the FastFreeSearch.com?


What is FastFreeSearch.com virus?

FastFreeSearch.com virus is a browser hijacker that is promoted with a help of free downloads. Once inside, it changes your homepage to FastFreeSearch.com and sets Yahoo as you default search provider. These changes are made without asking for your permission and the most annoying part is that it’s not that easy to revert them. If your system was infected, it is highly recommended to scan it with a reputable anitpsyware program, which will solve this issue automatically.

FastFreeSearch.com virus was designed for advertising sponsored websites. It basically tries to redirect computer users to these pages and increase their traffic. The creators of this browser hijacker also get paid for clicks on the ads that are displayed among search results using FastFreeSearch.com. Beware that there are no guarantees the program will redirect you to safe pages, so it actually poses risk to get your computer infected. It can also take you to websites that contain tracking cookies that will attempt to get information about your browsing habits (search queries, most visited websites) and use this data for marketing related purposes.

As already mentioned, the program is installed together with various freeware. So if you want to protect your browsers from being attacked by this kind of hijackers, you have to be more careful with what you are downloading to your computer and ensure you don’t allow to make any modifications in the settings of your browsers. Choose a Custom or Advanced installation whenever you are installing some player, PDF creators, download manager, etc. Look for any already selected confirmation boxes and take off the ones indicating about changing your homepage or search provider. Never install any additional programs that come bundled to free software either, unless you are sure about their reliability.

Make sure you remove FastFreeSearch.com virus from all affected browsers. Usually it takes over Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. However, less popular browsers can be affected too. To remove FastFreeSearch.com virus go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs list and uninstall anything related to this domain from there. Some versions of this hijacker install software that blocks browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with , or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers. A full tutorial how to get rid of FastFreeSearch.com virus is provided below this article.

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