Fastbrowsersearch Malware Removal

Removing Fastbrowsersearch From firefox

I put this note up on my other techy type blog and it is getting a lot of traffic via Yahoo. (I was obviously not the only teed off person.) Said blog is new and not on Google yet so I figured I’d post it here. I really want to do what ever I can to dent these people’s profit:

I’d hunted for some time to find a way to crush the Fastbrowsersearch malware that was forcing my Firefox browser to default to a page with loads of ads above the legitimate Google search that I wanted. It also killed the function that pointed the browser to the top site in Google for any given search term entered in the address bar.

I do realize that I am probably the last person in the universe to solve this problem but I figured that I’d post this just in case this is irritating the crap out of others.

Anyway, here is the solution

(1) Check for the unistall program in folder C:\Program Files\FBrowser
(2) Type ‘about:config’ in firefox address bar and filter contents with keyword ‘fast’
(3) right click on each value instance found and select to ‘reset’
(4) Close and restart your browser, hopefully its gone.

A humorous scary message wil lbe thrown up by Firefox – Ignore it.

Fastbrowsersearch is just a really sleazy way for a company to increase it’s money making clicks. May the people who came up with this either at least allow the user to reset their browser through the normal Firefox interface or be forced to use Internet Explorer for the rest of eternity