Recently, I saw a great deal of posts like “my browser displays me unwanted Fastcheck.top pop-up ads, is it a virus?” or “these Fastcheck.top pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to manage them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus creators started a massive adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the pc virus from your computer, and also forget about the bothersome Fastcheck.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Fastcheck.top) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to get alerts concerning the current news?” or “permit notifications to be reported about new discounts?”. Usually, such messages are harmless, and may only distract you with its abrupt showing up. Moreover, it can be quite easily disabled, in case alerts from this website are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are rather an reliable marketing mechanism. If you want products of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can purchase this things, and as soon as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will surely obtain a reminder about the item he/she planned to pay for. And such a marketing approach is practically free – this factor is really vital for companies.
| Site | Fastcheck.top |
| IP Address | 167.71.64.21 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Gooddaywith-captcha.top, News-hetayi.cc, Reminderapp.store |
Fastcheck.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up advertisements can show up without your permission, as well as with a content which is entirely different from your current attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted Fastcheck.top pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the pages which originally have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a situation can be the proof of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of malware which infiltrates into your personal computer, and then begins demonstrating to you different ads. Their subject often has no correlation with your normal search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can likewise display you a substantial number of different Fastcheck.top pop-up advertisements, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is really sly. The huge pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to terminate the user’s computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may still be impacted by adware virus. A substantial number of ads together with Fastcheck.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your typical tasks will certainly be impossible to do in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Fastcheck.top Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your personal computer, along with your data, is in a major risk. To stop this virus, you need to use virus removal program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Fastcheck.top pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not revert the web browser alterations which were put into effect by harmful program. Another drawback of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all unwanted programs on your PC, including Fastcheck.top pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to utilize Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to hold on until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Fastcheck.top virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using antivirus programs for browser reset, you can pick the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular web browsers.
Reset Microsoft Edge ⚙ Settings
- Open "Settings and more" tab in upper right corner, then find here "Settings" button. In the appeared menu, choose "Reset settings" option:
- After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:
Reset Mozilla Firefox ⚙ Settings
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the "Help" button. In the appeared menu choose "troubleshooting information":
- In the next screen, find the "Refresh Firefox" option:
- Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click "Advanced" option, and choose "Browser" button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there "Restore settings to their original defaults" option:
- After clicking the "Restore settings..." button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:
- Open Settings tab, find the "Advanced" button. In the extended tab choose the "Reset and clean up" button:
- In the appeared list, click on the "Restore settings to their original defaults":
- Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
Reset Opera ⚙ Settings
Reset Google Chrome ⚙ Settings
As an afterword, I want to say that the time plays against you and your PC. The activity of browser hijacker Fastcheck.top must be stopped as soon as possible, because of possibility of other malware injection. This malware can be downloaded autonomously, or offered for you to download in one of the windows with advertisements, which are shown to you by the hijacker. You need to act as fast as you can.
