Is your homepage taken over by Websearch.fastsearchings.info redirect now? When you surf on the Internet, are there lots of pop-up ads keep bothering you? Now browser hijacking is considered as another online fraud designed to promote potentially unwanted programs or distribute other malware. If you find out that your web browser is going crazy and being compromised, please follow the manual removal instruction to get rid of it quickly.
Websearch.fastsearchings.info is categorized as browser hijacker that has a serious effect on the functionality of our computers and on the safety of your data, your bank accounts and even your identities. Now theWeb Search virus is widely spread over the Internet, and it really annoys computer users because it is capable of modifying default search engine, changing your homepage, displaying unwanted pop-up ads and even distributing other malware. After successful infiltration, this redirect virus can make all your web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox go crazy because it will keep redirecting you to various harmful websites against your will.
When you open your web browser, your homepage will be replaced to Websearch.fastsearchings.info and the worse thing is you are not able to reset it to be the site you wish. Also if you try to search something from Google, Bing or other search page as your preferred, you will be redirected to other pages that may keep selling you different products or asking you to complete a survey. If a browser hijacker is running in the background, it may be used to track users’ Internet browsing activity by recording web pages visited, activity on those pages, search terms, and information within social media websites. In most cases, this redirect virus arrives bundled with freeware applications, such as shareware games or various video players. Although the page looks like a normal search website as similar as Google, Bing or Yahoo, if you enter search query and start to make a search, you will see it only shows many sponsored websites and various advertisement. For no reason should you keep it on the compromised computer. You have to manually remove Websearch.fastsearchings.info hijacker instantly once it is found.
Note: This website may display various advertisements to lure users to click on it. It may inform users that they are missing plugin to play video or telling that you are the winner of the day in your area and you need to fill out certain “sponsor offers” in order to claim you “free gift” or something like that. However, don’t click on any of the advertisements shown on Websearch.fastsearchings.info. Otherwise you will open a backdoor to let other viruses invade your computer to ruin your system.
If you open your browser window (includes IE, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome etc.) and notice immediately that your home page has been changed to a page you do not recognize, then your browser may have been hijacked by a virus. For this type of hijack virus, it can change your homepage to Websearch.fastsearchings.info without your permission. Other malicious activities can be shown on your computer after hijacked are listed below:
1. It can not only change your web pages, but also alter other settings to add toolbars, pop-up advertisements, and bookmarks that you did not create.
2. It can modify the homepage settings of your web browser, more commonly by reducing your internet security options. And the worse thing is it prevents you from changing them back.
3. New toolbars or Favorites are installed that give you icons and links to web pages that you don’t want.
4. It may block you from visiting certain website you’d like to visit and show an error page instead.
5. It will display constant pop-up ads, sometimes in such large amounts that you are not able to close neither the ads nor the browser.
1. You keep getting random pop-ups opening in new browser tabs.
2. When clicking on Google search links you get taken to sites that have nothing to do with the subject you searched for.
3. Anti-virus and firewall software won’t start.
4. Internet stops working.
5. Unknown software has been installed without your authorization.
6. You can’t access reputable sites unless you type the URL into the navigation bar
Websearch.fastsearchings.info hijacks your browser to redirect your web search results and changes the homepage and browser settings. To completely uninstall it from an infected system, manual removal is the first choice because sometimes antivirus software cannot pick up the exact computer threat timely or remove it permanently. Now most browser hijackers are quite similar to spyware and adware threats and therefore cannot be removed with the help of popular antivirus products. Users can follow the manual guide here to get rid of this browser hijacker completely.
1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.
Since this tricky hijacker virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users delete all the cookies before a complete removal.
Google Chrome:
Click on the “Tools” menu and click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box, then click “delete”
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies” button
2. End the malicious process from Task Manager.
Once Websearch.fastsearchings.info redirect is installed, computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent. At any time Windows always has many running processes. A process is an individual task that the computer runs. In general, the more processes, the more work the computer has to do and the slower it will run. If your system’s CPU spike is constant and remain at a constant 90-95%, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying the system resources and then end it immediately.
(The name of the virus process can be random.)
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly bring up Task Manager Window：
3. Show hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.
4. Remove all the malicious files related to Websearch.fastsearchings.info hijacker manually.
%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Websearch.fastsearchings.info hijacker can modify settings of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome which can cause many inconveniences for the users eventually. It may add an unwanted toolbar on the compromised web browser and make changes to browser settings. Even if this site seems to be a regular search engine, you cannot set it as your homepage or default search anyway because this is a spam search provider and it may trick you into installing PUPs, adware or even spyware on your computer. It is extremely annoying because this unwanted WebSearch virus can automatically load each time you open your web browser. Users had better find and remove all the related add-ons in order to stop the constant redirection to Websearch.fastsearchings.info.
Note: If you are not a computer expert and have no idea how to perform the removal, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.
Published by on June 29, 2014 4:43 am, last updated on June 29, 2014 4:43 am
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