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Fishjane is yet another potentially unwanted program. Also classified as an adware-type infection, this thing is sneaky. It promises to improve your online experience when in reality, it causes nothing but trouble. That means you have absolutely to time no waste. The minute you stumble across the parasite’s presence, take measures. Instead of ignoring the threat Fishjane poses, delete it. You have nothing to lose by removing this nuisance. You do have a lot to gain, though. The virus starts making modifications immediately after installation. For starters, your browsers receive a brand new extension. Your permission wasn’t even requited. Infections don’t tend to take care of your preferences. Instead, they just alter your browser settings behind your back. The PUP takes over all your once trustworthy browsers. It injects them with a never-ending parade of pop-ups. As a result, you can wave surfing the Web goodbye right now. You see, nobody could browse the Internet when they’re bombarded with nasty commercials all the time. These ads are extremely irritating and obnoxious. Furthermore, they are sponsored. The Fishjane virus only generates tailored, specific ads. Even though those may appear to be harmless, you should know better than to trust crooks. The pop-up ads a virus displays are never reliable. That’s the case with all commercials you now stumble across.  Fishjane makes sure every website you visit comes covered with ads. As mentioned, the advertisements must be avoided. Stay away from all pop-ups, pop-unders, banners, interstitials, video ads, etc. Remember that those are brought to you by a pesky cyber intruder. There’s no plausible scenario in which they are harmless. If you click the wrong pop-up, you may automatically download malware. Yes, it’s just that simple. Get ready to be seeing a stubborn pile of sponsored ads on a daily basis. The only way to get rid of the commercials is by tackling the PUP. Then why procrastinate? This program also redirects you to random pages and slows down your PC speed. Long story short,  Fishjane effectively destroys your entire online experience. As if that wasn’t enough, the parasite’s developers might spy on your personal information as well. We’re talking browsing history, search queries, usernames/passwords, email addresses, IP addresses. If you’re particularly unlucky, the PUP may steal some personally identifiable data in addition. For example, bank account details and online credentials. It goes without saying how immensely dangerous this trick is. Uninstall the virus ASAP.

How did I get infected with?

One commonly used tactic is called freeware bundling. If you’re someone who often downloads unverified programs, be careful. This time you downloaded one relatively easy to remove infection. However, there are some much more worrisome kinds of programs out there. They use that very same technique. Remember that the Web is infested with ransomware parasites and Trojan horses. To prevent virus infiltration, avoid illegitimate programs. Especially when they come bundled. It is strongly recommended that you opt for the advanced or custom option in the Setup Wizard beforehand. Otherwise, you may end up installing more programs than you originally wanted. If you spot any potentially unwanted “bonus” program in the bundle, just deselect it. This will save you the trouble. We would also advise you to check out the Terms and Conditions of what you download. In order to protect your security, you have to pay attention to what you give green light to. Never rush the installation process because one careless move online is enough to compromise your PC.

Why is this dangerous?

The  Fishjane parasite hijacks your browsing experience. It adds a plugin to your browsers thus injecting them with ads. Worthless, possibly corrupted ads. Restrain yourself from clicking anything the parasite generates. After all, it’s a virus we’re talking about. This program wasn’t created to provide you the best deals/offers. It boosts web traffic and harasses you at the same time. Don’t be surprised when your browsers start freezing and crashing as well. Your Internet connection may become unstable and the device underperforms. To top it all,  Fishjane jeopardizes your privacy by spying on your sensitive details. You must delete the intruder for good before it gets out of hand. Please follow our detailed manual removal guide down below.

How to Remove Fishjane virus

The Fishjane infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Fishjane infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

WARNING! Stopping the wrong file or deleting the wrong registry key may damage your system irreversibly.
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STEP 1: Track down Fishjane in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Fishjane startup location

STEP 3: Delete Fishjane traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Fishjane in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate Fishjane startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean Fishjane virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean Fishjane traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Fishjane by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by Fishjane

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for Fishjane, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove Fishjane argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove Fishjane Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your system and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.