Fast Start is a homepage that gets onto Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer and takes the place of the one you already have as a default. Fast Start gets installed by an unwanted program and is hard to remove without the right tools. Its developers make sure that this page stays on your browser for as long as possible so that they can reap maximum benefits: each time you use Fast Start services, they cash in.
Fast Start derives from the Lightning Newtab add-on, which appears each time you open a new browser tab. Besides slowing down your browser, which has to implement additional instructions in its memory in order to load and display this add-on, Fast Start also threatens privacy since it can access all of your browsing history.
For your information please know that Fast Start is considered as a parasite only by DrWeb.
How to remove Fast Start ?
Remove Fast Start from your browser
- Open Chrome and go to the 3 stripes icon
in top right corner. - Select Settings and on the left side Extensions.
- Remove Fast Start by clicking the trash can
icon.
- Restart Chrome.
- Open Firefox
- Click on the Big Orange Firefox button in top left corner, then select Add-ons
- Remove Fast Start by clicking the Remove button.
- Restart Firefox
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the Gear icon
, then click on Manage Addons - Go to the tabToolbars and Extensions
- Select and disable Fast Start if you can’t find it or if you can't remove it, go to the next step.
- Restart Internet Explorer
Remove Fast Start with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a useful tool made to delete unwelcome toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner will require no set up and can be ran in a instant to scan your pc.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove Fast Start with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like Fast Start.
- Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Fast Start.
- When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
- Reboot your computer if prompted.
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