How to Remove Fastcanary Hijacker

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Fastcanary is bad news. This parasite is a nasty browser hijacker. It is an invader that uses trickery to slither into your system. It slips in unnoticed and wreaks utter havoc. The Fastcanary hijacker takes over your web browsers and turns them into ad-displaying tools. The parasite injects various ads on every website you visit. It is also capable of opening pop-ups and redirecting your web traffic. Every time you click on its ads, the hijacker gets paid. And so, it has no intentions in limiting the number of its adverts. Quite the contrary. This parasite floods its victims with advertisements. The hijacker gets more and more aggressive with each passing day. It tends to get out of control. Unfortunately, this puts you in a bad position. The aggressive marketing takes a toll on your device. The hijacker causes your browser to freeze and crash frequently. You may also experience system crashes. Your Internet connection, too, becomes slow and unstable. The hijacker prevents you from using your device normally. This tiny advertising parasite takes over your user experience. The Fastcanary hijacker has no place on your computer. Do not put up with this aggressor. Stop it before it’s too late. Clean your system for good!

How did I get infected with?

The Fastcanary hijacker does not hack computers. This parasite cannot do that. It’s not that advanced. The hijacker is not a virus, but a simple application. And just like any other app, to enter your system, it needs an invitation. It needs your approval. No permission, no admission! That’s the rule. Yet, as you can imagine, the hijacker knows how to steal your approval. The parasite knows how to trick you into installing it. It uses torrents, fake updates, spam emails, and software bundles. All it needs to succeed is one second of carelessness. Do not make its job easier. Choose caution over carelessness. Only your diligence can protect your computer. Stay away from shady websites. Download your software from reputable sources only. When installing an app, read between the lines. When available, use the advanced installation option. Under it, you would be able to deselect all bonus programs that are about to get installed. These third-party applications, more often than not, are parasites like the Fastcanary hijacker. Make sure you install trustworthy apps only. Read the terms and conditions (you can speed up this step by using an online EULA analyzer). If you detect anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately!

Why is this dangerous?

The Fastcanary hijacker is intrusive and annoying. It interferes with your every online activity. But, don’t underestimate the situation. The hijacker is not a mere annoyance. It is quite dangerous. The hijacker needs clicks, and it’s ready to do anything to get them. The parasite studies your browsing habits and basses its ads on the collected data. In other words: it turns you into a target by spying on you. The hijacker monitors your every online action. Even the Incognito mode of your browser cannot hide you. It’s just a matter of time before the parasite discovers something sensitive. Even if it doesn’t, the collected data is still more than sufficient for the parasite to target you. In theory, if you enter “sneakers” into a search engine, you would get ads for sports shoes. In practice, however, you get drowned in a sea of unreliable advertisements. The Fastcanary hijacker has no security mechanism. Numerous crooks use this pest to target potential victims. They prepare customized adverts and force them on you. The crooks show you what you want to see, but when you click, bad things happen. You risk ending up on scam and infected pages. The crooks want to either convince you to install rogue programs or to trick you into revealing sensitive information. As for the Fastcanary hijacker, it works to their advantage. The parasite turns you into an easy victim. Don’t allow this madness to continue a minute longer. Remove the hijacker ASAP! The sooner you clean your computer, the better!

How to Remove Fastcanary virus

The Fastcanary 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 Fastcanary 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.

STEP 1: Track down Fastcanary related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Fastcanary startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Fastcanary related processes 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 Fastcanary 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 Fastcanary 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 Fastcanary traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Fastcanary 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 Fastcanary

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 Fastcanary, 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 Fastcanary 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 Fastcanary Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your whole system or network 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.