How to Remove Fidonav from Chrome, FF, IE

Can’t Remove Fidonav hijacker virus? This page includes detailed Fidonav Removal instructions!

Fidonav is a dangerous PC virus that promises to enhance your browsing experience. However, this program was created by hackers to serve their purposes. Needless to say, crooks aren’t remotely interested in helping you out. The Fidonav parasite is only on board to generate web traffic and help hackers gain profit. In other words, keeping their infection turns you into a sponsor of cyber criminals. That also exposes you to further damage because Fidonav is tricky. It follows one quite simple and yet super effective scheme. First of all, the virus pretends to be a legitimate search engine. It attempts to fool you into installing it that way. Once your computer gets infected, the hijacker starts making modifications. All changes that follow happen behind your back and without your authorization. Hence, your favorite browsers get altered in silence. Fidonav modifies both your default search engine and homepage. They get replaced with the parasite’s questionable domain. Don’t forget this domain is associated with cyber criminals. Now that your browsers are modified, they start generating sponsored web links. The parasite practically floods your PC screen with questionable web links. Every time you search the Web, it redirects you. Obviously, hackers need you to help them gain effortless revenue. By boosting web traffic to some particular websites, crooks make money. Your browsing experience as well as your security remain out of the picture. And that’s not even the whole thing. Fidonav might bring along some commercials that are just as unreliable as the search results. Long story short, nothing generated by this nuisance is to be trusted. To prevent further harm, stay away from all web links displayed by the parasite. You won’t regret it because some of those are corrupted. If you’re unlucky enough to click them, you’ll download more viruses. There is no telling which link is safe and which one isn’t so be careful, Restrain yourself from clicking anything Fidonav forces on you. Take measures ASAP to get rid of this intruder. The hijacker also collects your browsing-related data so you have to protect your privacy too.

How did I get infected with?

As mentioned already, you may have agreed to install the parasite. That isn’t usually the case, though. More often than not, hackers use stealthy methods to spread their creations online. Fidonav probably applied the most popular technique out there. It might have been bundled with some legitimate programs. As you can see, compromising your safety isn’t a difficult task. All you have to do is download a certain software bundle off of the Internet. Unless you pay close attention to the programs in there, you could install a virus. Or, if you’re unfortunate, a whole bunch of viruses. Hackers often add all kinds of malware into a single seemingly safe bundle. Yes, that includes some of the more aggressive and destructive kinds of parasites such as Trojans and ransomware. There is no reason for you to be rushing the installation process. Opt for the Custom option in the Setup Wizard instead. Check out the Terms and Conditions as well because those could protect your security. In the future, always keep an eye out for potential intruders. Preventing malware infiltration is a must so don’t be negligent.

Why is this dangerous?

The Fidonav pest goes after all your browsers. It works with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Before you know it, this program has taken over. None of your browsers is reliable or trustworthy anymore. On the other hand, you’re bombarded with sponsored and unsafe web links on a daily basis. Stay away from anything displayed by the hijacker. Keep in mind that Fidonav was never intended to be beneficial for you. It is only trying to provide hackers a simple way to make money at your expense. Cyber criminals are currently taking advantage of your device. They are more than willing to cause you damage unless you take action. The sooner you get rid of this tricky infection, the better. Fidonav poses a threat to your privacy as well and it constantly redirects you. This program adds a malicious extension to your browsers and might make further modifications. To delete it manually, please follow our detailed removal guide down below.

How to Remove Fidonav virus

The Fidonav 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 Fidonav 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 Fidonav related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Fidonav startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Fidonav 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 Fidonav 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 Fidonav 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 Fidonav traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Fidonav, 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 Fidonav 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 Fidonav 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.