Get News Fast - How to remove

Get News Fast is a browser hijacker which takes away your freedom to decide which search engine to use. This extension is considered to be malware and should not be used without knowing the problems that it has.

Get News Fast is actually considered to be malicious by quite a few reputable antivirus programs. The program is blacklisted for a few different reasons: poor reputation, intrusive settings modification, adware. Get News Fast is developed by SpringTech Ltd or Eightpoint Technologies Ltd, a company responsible for a few other browser hijackers, like FreeForms and Local Weather Radar.

How does Get News Fast spread?

Get News Fast has its own homepage that allows people to download it. It doesn’t make it completely clear that Get News Fast is an extension or what it does, other than that it allows you to “Read News”. When you click the big, bright CONTINUE button, you’re prompted to install the extension. In Chrome, Get News Fast opens a pop-up window that cuts off the description, the privacy policy, and the (in the case of Get News Fast, very suspicious) reviews. This framing of the installation process is suspicious. Due to a lot of complaints and abuse of the system, Chrome does not allow extensions to be installed from the homepages of websites anymore. Get News Fast is not acting in good faith here.

Another unfortunate way that browser hijackers spread is adware. Adware programs, websites, and extensions are used for advertising by the types of pages that are known to be risky or even dangerous. Most of the extensions advertised that way that I’ve seen are those created by the same company as Get News Fast.

Lastly, Get News Fast uses budling to push other unwanted add-ons to your browser. This is problematic. Thanks to bundling, you might end up installing a program you don’t want to, just because there’s no way to decline. You might install a program accidentally or even without knowing about it because the additional software is hidden in some fine print. Bundling — attaching unwanted applications to a wanted program — is incredibly easy to abuse and is widely used by malware, which is why using it casts a shadow on SpringTech. In the case of Get News Fast, it bundles Search Encrypt, an extension that tries to prevent you from using search engines other than the ones approved by it and Get News Fast.

What does Get News Fast do?

The main function of this toolbar is to direct your searches to the search engine that Get News Fast wants you to use. A search engine is just the website that you use to find you the pages that have the information that you’re looking for, such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Google.

You can’t install Get News Fast without it changing your search engine. This toolbar promotes the Yahoo! search site. Yahoo is functional, not malicious or dangerous, though it is known for filling the results page with ads when you search for anything remotely purchasable. Get News Fast adds to that by collecting a lot of information about the habits of its users, such as the search terms, what you click on, where you are, and a lot of other little things. This data is shared with advertisers, who can then show more relevant and effective ads to you.

When Get News Fast is not linking to Yahoo, it’s encouraging people to visit news.mynewswire.co, a notification-pushing site associated with multiple unwanted extensions. That site wants to push notifications to you, which can be abused to act like pop-up ads.

How to remove Get News Fast

Get News Fast makes its removal as difficult as it can. For example, on the IE, Get News Fast removes itself from the list of add-ons so that it can’t be uninstalled normally. On Chrome, it bundles another extension to more effectively take over the browser; to restore Chrome you’ll need to remove more extensions.

If you’re seeing pop-up ads, this article describes how to disable notifications. If you want to check your computer for adware and remove malicious software automatically, you can use a professional and reputable antivirus program: Spyhunter, or another application that you trust and that has a good reputation (there actually are fake antivirus programs out there, so be cautious).

Before installing extensions, remember that they can be abused by criminals, inadvertently putting their users in danger. Only very trusted programs should be allowed access to your browser (the same goes for desktop applications). There even are malicious browser extensions, even on the official stores — be careful out there.

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How to remove Get News Fast using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Get News Fast 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 Get News Fast . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Get News Fast 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 Get News Fast from macOS

Delete Get News Fast from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Get News Fast 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 Get News Fast 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 Get News Fast, 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 Get News Fast 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 Get News Fast 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 Get News Fast, 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 Get News Fast 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 Get News Fast, 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 Get News Fast from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Get News Fast 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 Get News Fast, 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.