Remove Fur Affinity Toolbar from Your Browser

How to Remove Fur Affinity Toolbar from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Fur Affinity Toolbar attacks your browser? Have been redirected to unwanted sites frequently by it? But the antivirus cannot remove it from the browser? If you want help to remove Fur Affinity Toolbar, this post provides a guide to get rid of Fur Affinity Toolbar from the system completely.

Introduction of Fur Affinity Toolbar

Fur Affinity Toolbar is considered as an ad-ware which is recently released by cyber hackers. It has been reported that junk emails, vicious websites and unauthorized freeware are three main hosts of this vicious ad-ware. Hence, we like to warn all network users to beware of all these potential virus carriers. 

Once it carries out attacks, Fur Affinity Toolbar will furtively make alterations to the settings of your browsers to block some specific functions, so that it can arbitrarily redirect you to its main advertising websites and keep popping up ads. These ads will frequently pop up whatever you are doing with your browsers. And it is very difficult to close them or stop them. You may have to reset your browsers or even reinstall your search engines. But even you do so, later on after you access back to your browsers, you will still have the same problems. You keep trying reinstalling, but you never succeed to completely stop Fur Affinity Toolbar. The real reason is that you didn’t permanently remove all its malicious files. So, we suggest you go for a manual way to carefully and effectively remove this stubborn ad-ware.

Major symptoms of Fur Affinity Toolbar

a.       The homepage is suddenly replaced by other site.

b.      The search results on Google, Bring, or Yahoo are completely redirected to unwanted sites.

c.       The DNS settings are modified without permission.

d.      The system runs really slow.

e.       The browser is always hijacked.

Solution to uninstall Fur Affinity Toolbar efficiently

Commonly, this kind of adware can use rootkit technology to hide inside the system. So many antivirus programs cannot detect it and remove it completely. For this reason, you should carry out a manual removal. Please read the following guide carefully and remove Fur Affinity Toolbar right now.

Step one : make all vicious items disabled.

1.      Press Window+R at the same time, then type “msconfig” in the box of “Run” and click OK

2.      Select Startup and look for all malicious items that are related to Fur Affinity Toolbar, and stop them

Step two: Uninstall this program from Control Panel

For Win7 and Win Vista

Click Start menu, choose Control Panel, then double click Programs( and Features). Go to find out Fur Affinity Toolbar, and uninstall it.

For Win XP

Go to Start menu, Select “Settings”, and then go to Control Panel. After that, open “Add or Remove Programs”. In there, find out Fur Affinity Toolbar and remove it.

Step three: Get rid of extensions and add-ons and restore the browser

For Internet Explorer users

1.      Go to “Tools”

2.      Select Manage Add-ons

3.      Select “Search Providers”, then choose Google or Bring from the list to set it as your default search engine.

4.      Go to Tools, go to Internet Options. Then, click General tab to choose a website like Google.com and don’t forget to save the modifications by clicking OK.

For Google Chrome users

1.      Go to “Customize and control”>Settings

2.      Select “Basic Options”

3.      Set Google.com as your homepage, or you also can click “Manage Search Engines…”to select other website.

4.      Choose Google as your default search engine

5.      Select the “Search Result” and click “X” to remove it.

For Mozilla Firefox users

1.      Click magnifier, then select “Manage Search Engine…”

2.      Find out Search Result from that list and remove it, and then click OK.

3.      Go to “Tools”>click Options. Then, in General Tab, reset the homepage and search engine to your favorite site

Step four: Remove all files and registry entries related to Fur Affinity Toolbar

To open the Registry Editor, you can click start menu and click run. Then, type regedit in the box and click ok.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet  Settings\random

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

C:\WINDOWS\system32\giner.exe

Attention: you need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result in other complicate system problems.