Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker - How to remove

Home.fastemailaccess.com or just fastemailaccess.com is described as free tool that should allow you to reach your email inbox right on the homepage of your web browser. However, it seems like this website, which is operating as browser add-on, is just another browser hijacker. There are plenty of services that should provide you with those abilities but turns out to be malware. earch.hemailloginnow.com and home.emailaccountlogin.co are perfect examples of such a fraud.

In case you have installed this tool on purpose, seeking to get easier access to you email inbox, we suggest to download a reliable desktop version of well-known email provider, such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird and stop using Home.fastemailaccess.com. If you have no idea how this application landed on your computer and now you see this website as a homepage, that means you have been infected and should remove this virus also. Proceed reading this blog post to learn how to clean your computer from this malware infection.

We should mention that this website is labeled as a browser hijacker for several reasons. First and the most important one – it will change what you see on your homepage. That means once installed on your computer, fastemailaccess browser extension will automatically make changes – both homepage and default search engine on your web browser will be set to www.home.fastemailaccess.com. This will definitely change the way you are browsing the Internet because this website will be the first thing you see when a web browser is opened.

The website itself looks like a search engine that you could trust. However – do not trust it. using this search engine might result in serious harm done to your computer and privacy. All search queries submitted to Home.fastemailaccess.com will be executed via Yahoo search engine, so the results displayed are OK. However, all your search queries will be recorded and used for various purposes that you won’t like. If you take a look at their Privacy Policy, you will notice that your personal identifiable information and search data will be collected:

1. 1. 1. PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AND SEARCH DATA

We do not, generally, track or maintain personal identifiable information (“Personal Identifiable Information”) about users that use Company Utilities. However, we may collect Personal Identifiable Information through the use of Company Utilities upon your contacting us in order to respond to your questions or comments, such as your name, email or mailing address, or other information you include when contacting us. In addition, as part of the functionality provided by Company Utilities, we may collect and store URLS that you visit and your browser’s home page which could contain Personally Identifiable information. We may also collect, use and store information about your search activity when you use web search services (such as search queries) (“Search Data”). Your Search Data is collected and stored and may include Personally Identifiable Information, depending on your search query. For instance, if you search your own name, Personally Identifiable Information would be included in the search query. BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO GRANT THE COMPANY A PERMISSION TO COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION, URLS AND SEARCH DATA, INCLUDING SEARCH QUERIES THAT MAY CONTAIN PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION, SHARE THEM WITH THIRD PARTIES, AND USE SEARCH-RELATED COOKIES.

This information is used either to present you with offers for other products, offerings, programs, features and/or services or to transfer it to third-party advertising networks and advertisers who help deliver relevant ads when you are on a web page. We only share anonymized or aggregated information and your Search Data with them to improve the relevancy of the ads displayed to you. So basically that means that you will get additional advertisements while browsing the Internet. This is how Home.fastemailaccess.com virus is making a living – they sell your information and web traffic to third parties. You might also experience slower work of the computer and other malware being installed due to this hijacker.

Home.fastemailaccess.com website is registered in US, IP address: 52.85.101.166. The company behind it is ElementSoft SL. They don’t want you to know who they are, since the this information is not easily accessible, and that’s definitely not a good sign.

How to remove Home.fastemailaccess.com virus

It’s rather easy to remove infection like this. However, you still have to have some knowledge and experience in this field in order to be able to do that. For that reason, we suggest to get yourself a decent anti-malware tool, such as Spyhunter to deal with this problem. You can also use other anti-malware tools of your choice too. For further assistance – scroll down below this article and take a look at our step-by-step fastemailaccess.com virus removal guide.

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How to remove fastemailaccess hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Fastemailaccess.com install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make fastemailaccess hijacker easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker from macOS

Delete fastemailaccess hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Fastemailaccess.com app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Fastemailaccess.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Fastemailaccess.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Fastemailaccess.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Fastemailaccess.com and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Home.fastemailaccess.com hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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