Fastmailtab.com Browser Hijacker - How to remove

Fastmailtab.com is reported as a fake search engine promoted through a potentially unwanted program (PUP) categorized as an intrusive browser hijacker. Currently, it attacks Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and other popular browsers. The program bears the name of Fast Mail Tab advertised as a useful browser extension. It is promoted to help people access several email accounts directly through opening a new browser tab.

At first glance, the services rendered by the Fast Mail Tab extension seem to be useful, however, there are some other amendments that become inevitable once you activate the add-on. The final mission of the program is to amend the browser settings by promoting a fake search engine and collect important personal information about the user. The research of similar extensions indicates that the users typically install the Fast Mail Tab add-on unintentionally. Therefore, it’s one more reason why the program is reported as a PUP.

Amendments by Fast Mail Tab

Fast Mail Tab extension was elaborated to promote the Fastmailtab.com page by amending the following browser settings:

• homepage;
• default search engine;
• new tab URL.

Once the extension is installed and enabled, the people are forced to start their browsing with Fastmailtab.com. The same page appears whenever they attempt to open the blank new tab, no matter how many times they do it. Furthermore, when submitting specific search queries through the integrated search box, the results will be delivered through third-party search engines in contradiction to the user’s personal choices.

Undoing the changes introduced by the Fast Mail Tab cay be done by disabling and deleting the extension, otherwise, the manual attempts to change the browser settings will not be successful. The active extension will reassign its own values whenever the browser is restarted.

In addition to the unauthorized browser alterations, extensions similar to Fast Mail Tab may be involved in collecting a lot of personal details about the users, for example, geographical locations, URLs of the visited pages, submitted search queries, IP addresses, and other strictly confidential data. The problem is that this information may also be illegally shared with third parties without the user’s direct approval. In particular, the collected data may be applied for the purpose of generating the revenue and may even be granted (illegally sold) to cybercriminals. Considering these facts about the extension, it is strongly advised that you get rid of it as soon as possible.

Is Fast Mail Tab the only PUP on your device

It is hard to answer this question without properly investigating your system. However, the fact that the Fast Mail Tab extension and the fastmailtab.com hijacker were installed without your direct permission means there may be some other unwanted programs causing similar problems. In fact, the research of Fast Mail Tab and similar hijackers clearly reveals that such unwanted utilities are spread through bundling with free programs. It is very important that you always pay very close attention to the information provided during the setup process of free applications, making sure you do not allow any additional programs to be installed by default. Selecting the “Advanced” or “Custom” installation mode is very important for properly understanding what additional utilities may be contained in the bundle.

We recommend you to carefully examine your available programs to identify the entries that definitely look suspicious. Get rid of them just as you remove other software you no longer need.

How to remove Fast Mail Tab

Disabling the Fast Mail Tab extension and removing the fastmailtab.com redirection from the browser implies implementing the following milestones:

• access your browser menu;
• select “Extensions” or “Add-ons”;
• locate Fast Mail Tab;
• restart your browser.

Remember about the importance of your personal caution while browsing the web and especially when installing free software. You could have avoided unwanted installation of the Fast Mail Tab extension if you paid more attention while installing free software lately. Finally, your current security software is also responsible for permitting this unwanted utility to be easily enabled. We recommend you to switch to another more powerful software that will perform the protecting functions in a much better way and will help to clean your system from other malware samples that may be in place. Try downloading and scanning your computer with Spyhunter. Either one of those programs should be capable of detecting and removing malware operating on your system.

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Manual Removal of Fastmailtab.com

How to remove Fastmailtab.com using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Fastmailtab.com Browser Hijacker 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 Fastmailtab.com . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Fastmailtab.com Browser 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 Fastmailtab.com from macOS

Delete Fastmailtab.com Browser Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Fastmailtab.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 Fastmailtab.com Browser 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 Fastmailtab.com Browser Hijacker, 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 Fastmailtab.com Browser 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 Fastmailtab.com Browser 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 Fastmailtab.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 Fastmailtab.com Browser 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 Fastmailtab.com Browser Hijacker, 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 Fastmailtab.com Browser 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 Fastmailtab.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 Fastmailtab.com Browser 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.