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How to remove fastantimalwarescanner.com?

March 3rd, 2009

What is fastantimalwarescanner.com?

fastantimalwarescanner.com is a browser hijacker promoting Antivirus 360 – a bogus anti-spyware program. Funny, but the website is clear remake of former browser hijacker as the  name of parasite promoted varies through text sometimes. Sometimes it is called total protection, sometimes antivirus 360 protection. This is still same bogus application. 

You can get infected with fastantimalwarescanner.com hijacker by visiting infected sites or by download of torrents infected with this malware. After installation, you are redirected to this website where all you can do is either download fake scanner or pay for it. If you pay, your credit card details will be given away to makers of this rogue application and they might charge you again till you change the card.

The domain registered on 2009-03-03 and hosted in germany. Same hijacker is hosted on Fast-antimalware-scanner.com as well, so you should block these domains using hosts file.


fastantimalwarescanner.com is Dangerous

arrow fastantimalwarescanner.com is a parasitic Browser Hijacker
arrow fastantimalwarescanner.com may show numerous annoying advertisements
arrow fastantimalwarescanner.com logs your internet browsing history
arrow fastantimalwarescanner.com will replace (hijack) your browser homepage
arrow fastantimalwarescanner.com may spread additional spyware
arrow fastantimalwarescanner.com violates your privacy and compromises your security
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Manual fastantimalwarescanner.com removal


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove fastantimalwarescanner.com, such activity can permanently damage your system if any mistakes are made in the process, as advanced spyware parasites are able to automatically repair themselves if not completely removed. Thus, manual spyware removal is recommended for experienced users only, such as IT specialists or highly qualified system administrators. For other users, we recommend using Spyware Doctor or other malware and spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.
Stop these fastantimalwarescanner.com processes:
Remove these fastantimalwarescanner.com Registry Entries:
Remove these fastantimalwarescanner.com files:
It is impossible to list all file names and locations of modern parasites. You can identify remaining parasites, other fastantimalwarescanner.com infected files and get help in fastantimalwarescanner.com removal by using free Spyware Doctor scanner. It comes with free real-time protection module that helps preventing fastantimalwarescanner.com and similar threats.

fastantimalwarescanner.com is classified as a Browser Hijacker, which means its parasitic damage payload consists of hijacking your browser homepage, error page, or search page with its own, mostly a commercial site of its creators, forcing you to accumulate force hits to a particular website to make it more popular or by using pay-per-click sites to earn money.

The easiest way for a Browser Hijacker such as fastantimalwarescanner.com to infect your computer is to exploit certain ActiveX controls and other security holes in your Internet Explorer browser. By browsing insecure websites on the internet, users may encounter various pop-ups, which secretly install Browser Hijackers like fastantimalwarescanner.com on your computer once clicked upon.

As soon as fastantimalwarescanner.com completes its operations, the overall browser stability and performance severely degrade, making it nearly impossible to surf the web normally.


How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Browser Hijacker such as fastantimalwarescanner.com?

Slow internet connection: Browser Helper Objects are constantly using your internet connection to send your private information to remote servers, as well as receive ads and pop-ups from third party servers, which causes much slower internet connection speed and overall connection instability.
Numerous undesirable and annoying pop-ups: A typical Browser Hijacker keeps track of your internet browsing habits, sending your browsing history data to remote servers, owned by third party companies that use this information to advertise their products via numerous pop-ups, toolbars, hijacked homepages and spam letters. All these undesirable advertising methods are used on the victims of Browser Hijackers.

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