Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Remove Fast Media Converter from PC Step by Step

Fast Media Converter is installed on my computer without permission and I don’t know how to remove it. I have tried to uninstall it from the Control Panel, but it comes back after I reboot the system. How can I remove it completely from my PC?
Description of Fast Media Converter

Fast Media Converter is used by cyber criminals to promote ads and various malicious programs. Thus, it has been identified as a risky adware, which is used by cyber criminals to make a profit. Once Fast Media Converter sneaks into your PC, it will bring much damage to your system. First of all, it will alter your browser settings and make your browser under its control. As a result, no matter when you open your browser, it will be redirected to undesired websites, and if you browser on them, you will be infected by more dangerous viruses. That’s because viruses are likely to hide in some suspicious websites. So if you are browsing on theses websites, destructive viruses will catch a chance to invade your system.
Moreover, your search results will not be able to satisfy your search queries, for that all the result pages are redirected other unknown sites, no matter how many times you try. Besides, Fast Media Converter may induce more infections to invade your system, such as worms, ransomware, and Trojan horse. That is to say, your machine will encounter more trouble in the future. All in all, if you want to stop pop-up ads and safeguard your machine, you should remove Fast Media Converter immediately.
Screenshot of Fast Media Converter
Annoyances that are caused by Fast Media Converter:

1.Fast Media Converter virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.Fast Media Converter virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.
Steps to remove Fast Media Converter virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of Fast Media Converter from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.
2.Display all hidden files so as to remove Fast Media Converter's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel
②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options
③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.
Then you will see the following Screenshot:
Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!
How to Open & Back up the Registry

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