Remove ShopItFast Virus from My IE/Firefox Step by Step

How to Remove ShopItFast from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Your browser is infected by ShopItFast? Cannot remove it efficiently? If you want help to remove ShopItFast, you can read this post and get rid of ShopItFast from the system completely.

Introduction of ShopItFast

With complicated program design and algorithms, ShopItFast is a deceptive and terrible browser hijacker, which also is the variant of OMG Music Toolbar. Hackers disguise ShopItFast as a legitimate toolbar which is applicable to all search engines or browsers. If you are deceived to install it to your browsers, you will be regretted soon because it will have adverse effects upon your web surfing. In reality, you may not be able to know that it starts its corrosion and destruction upon its invasion into your compromised system.

ShopItFast corrodes related system parameter of your search engines or browsers; it also arbitrarily tampers with certain system settings; and it will block some websites as well. As a consequence, when you use your search engines, search on your browsers, you will find that many functions are invalid; some websites you cannot open; your search results are always something irrelevant and unexpected. You may have some doubts about why your browsing history is deleted very often since you didn’t change any settings to clear your browsing history at all. In fact, it is all done by ShopItFast. All losses and damages you may have are far more than these, if you are infected by ShopItFast. Therefore, it is advised that you have to remove it as soon as possible.

Major symptoms of ShopItFast

a.       The start page is suddenly changed to unknown website.

b.      The all search results are completely redirected to malicious pages that contain many ads.

c.       The DNS settings are modified without permission.

d.      The system runs really slow.

e.       The browser is always hijacked.

Solution to uninstall ShopItFast 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 ShopItFast 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 ShopItFast, 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 ShopItFast, 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 ShopItFast 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 ShopItFast

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

%ProgramFiles%\

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = ’0

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