Remove Fornews2017.com (Chrome/Edge/Firefox)

I wrote this article to help you remove Fornews2017.com. This Fornews2017.com removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The appearance of the Fornews2017.com website is bad news. This page indicates the presence of a nasty cyber infection which has managed to slither on your machine and it is now corrupting it. To be more specific, you are dealing with a browser hijacker. Are you familiar with this type of infections? They are not the most dangerous parasites you can encounter, but this doesn’t mean they are not dangerous. The hijacker you are hosting can and will cause you harm if given enough time on board. Its only goal is to generate web traffic to particular pages go the crooks behind it could gain effortless profits. They use the pay-per-click mechanism to do so. The problem is that they make you their sponsor and everything their gain is only at your expense.

Also, these hackers couldn’t care less about your machine`s safety. As long as you click on things so they could make profits, they are happy. We could not say the same about you, though. You have a cyber infection on board and you have to act fast to remove it ASAP. No pest deserves a place in your system. Get rid of Fornews2017.com now, unless you want to regret not doing so later.

Immediately after the hijacker enters your PC, your browsing experience changes. The pest starts making completely unauthorized reshuffles in your settings. For example, the Fornews2017.com page becomes your online shadow. You see all the time. When you open a new tab, it is there. You try visiting a page, you get redirected back to it. You type in a search, it appears among the results. This domain even replaces your homepage and search engine. And it is not alone. Because of the hijacker, you are forced to visit many others just as shady sites as well. Your previously normal online activities are long gone.

Every time you go online, you suffer disruptions. You cannot find anything you are looking for and you are constantly redirected to suspicious pages. Moreover, you are buried in ads. The hijacker bombards you with a never-ending pile of commercials on daily basis. Even sites which used to be ad-free are now heavy on pop-ups. You see coupons, deals, offers, video ads, in texts, and pretty much whatever else you can think of.

Remove Fornews2017.com
The Fornews2017.com Virus

As we said, these advertisements are used to boost web traffic so hackers could make money. But what we didn’t say is that they are sponsored and dangerous. In fact, a single click on a corrupted ad and you automatically download more infections on your already infected and underperforming machine. Is that what you want? To help crooks become richer while compromising your PC even more? We doubt it. This hijacker has to go. It has nothing helpful to offer you. On the contrary. It effectively ruins your browsing experience, it exposes you to daily malware risk, it slows down your computer, and like this is not enough, it threatens to expose your private details to cybercriminals. That’s right. The hijacker spies on your and monitors your every online move in order to collect as much valuable data as possible. We are talking email addresses, IPs, passwords, usernames, browser-related information, etc.

Keep in mind that the pest can even reach your personally identifiable and financial credentials as well. What do you suppose the crooks are going to use this info for? The options are two: they will either use it for their own malicious purposes, or they will sell it to third parties which can use it for whatever they see fit. Needless to say, you lose. Unless you take measures. Delete this pest now. To do so manually, use our removal guide at the end of this article.

How did you get infected? We assume that you didn’t download the parasite on purpose but you did something else to ease its entering. You were careless. Hijackers rely on tricks to get in so they pray on victims` negligence. Without it, their tactics would never work. For instance, one of the most popular methods is called freeware bundling where crooks attach malware as extra to other programs. Then, the victim (aka you) does the rest by throwing caution to the wind when installing these program. You need to be more careful. Always opt for the Custom settings in the Setup Wizard. Yes, they take a little bit more time but they also allow you to see each additional program in the bundle as well as to deselect it if you want to.

Also, never skip the Terms and Conditions/EULA unless you want to accidentally agree to something you are totally against. Be vigilant as we don’t only mean with bundles but in general. Other methods which infections use that also rely on your distraction and negligence are spam emails, fake updates, corrupted pages, third-party ads, etc.

Fornews2017.com Removal

STEP-1 Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.
Safe Mode with Networking
For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌
Windows 8 Safe Mode with Network
Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.
win10 safemode 1
While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.
win10 safemode 2

STEP-2Here are the steps you must follow to permanently remove from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.
firefox extensions
Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).
chrome extensions

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.
ie gear
Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

STEP-3

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

ff shortcut

STEP-4

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

appwiz

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

STEP-5

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

task manager

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

STEP-6

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

msconfig

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove Fornews2017.com from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.

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