Ifastsearch.com virus - How to remove

Ifastsearch.com website as browser add-on and is classified as browser hijacked by cyber security experts. If you add this add-on to your web browsers or it gets added without your notice, both homepage and default search engine will be set to www.ifastsearch.com. What’s even more annoying, that you will be not able to change those settings until this application is removed from your computer. In case you are experiencing consequences of this virus right now, please keep reading the article and we will provide you with instructions how to solve this problem.

If you take a look at their Privacy Policy on their official landing page, you can notice that this add-on belongs to Hopebest Inc., ‘Hopebest products’ as they refer to themselves. This company is known for developing malicious add-ons like this and this time it’s no exception.

Usually browser hijackers steal traffic and make money by displaying sponsored content or redirecting it to affiliated websites. Often those websites happen to be malicious too, so your cyber security is really at risk.

In this particular case, Ifastsearch.com is promoted as an advanced search engine, that should allow you o search the Internet faster and more efficiently. However, we find this description to be completely false as all searches submitted to Ifastsearch.com are executed via Google search.

There are multiple reports that Ifastsearch.com is displaying advertisements on infected computers. So if your web browser has this add-on and your homepage is www.Ifastsearch.com, you are likely to see an additional dose of various advertisements. Nowadays Internet is full of ads hosted on various websites, but in this case, you will experience more of them, on top of all other ads, in form of pop-up, pop-under or regular banner advertisements. It can be really frustrating because ads delivered by malware usually are very tricky – you can’t avoid them. Sometimes they take up a very large space on your screen and you can’t continue using your web browser without closing it, but it’s almost impossible to close it without clicking on the ad itself.

The most frightening feature of this browser hijacker is the way they collect and use your personal information. It is publicly disclosed in their Privacy Policy:

 The Hopebest family of companies correspond with advertisers, data management platform, and ad networks to customize online behavioral advertisements that are created to target users’ interests. In order to deliver these advertisements, these third parties may and/or we may disclose to these third parties an identification number to be associated with your device’s platform.

How We Share Your Personal Information With Third Parties
We may share your personal information we collect from you with others as indicated below:

• Business Partners: We may share information we collect from you with our business partners whenever you engage in promotions, contests, and sweepstakes.
• Advertisers and Ad Networks: These third party advertisers may collect information themelves in order to produce tailored advertisements.
• Other HOPEBEST Businesses: We may share your information with our affiliated HOPEBEST companies to provide a customized user experience.
• Other Important Situations: We may disclose your personal information as required by the courts in good faith compliance.

As you can see, various information about you will be collected and transferred/sold to third parties. What’s even more astonishing, that this application can provide you with email inbox and monitor all the content that is sent through it:

When you log-in to the HOPEBEST Services via Facebook or another social media platform, we may also collect the information provided to us through these sites. When we provide you with an email inbox, we may collect and monitor the contents of emails sent through the system.

Considering this, we believe that Ifastsearch.com is a threat to your security and keeping it installed would be detrimental. If you are looking for an efficient way to solve this problem, we suggest to download reliable anti-malware application, such as SpyHunter or Malwarebytes. Install on of them to your computer and then run a full scan of all files stored on your hard drive. The virus should be gone in several minutes and if you keep anti-malware installed on your computer, it will be protected from similar threats in the future.

For those of you who do not feel like downloading additional anti-malware software, we have developed a step-by-step Ifastsearch.com manual removal guide – scroll down below this article and check it out. Try to complete all steps correctly and this browser hijacker should be removed.

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How to remove Ifastsearch.com virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Ifastsearch.com virus install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Ifastsearch.com virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Ifastsearch.com virus easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Ifastsearch.com virus from macOS

Delete Ifastsearch.com virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Ifastsearch.com virus app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Ifastsearch.com virus from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ifastsearch.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Ifastsearch.com virus from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Ifastsearch.com virus related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ifastsearch.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Ifastsearch.com virus from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ifastsearch.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Ifastsearch.com virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Ifastsearch.com virus and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ifastsearch.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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