Are you seeing Fedsit.com site in the FF, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge every time you use the web-browser to surf the Net? This means that your PC system can be infected with an ‘ad-supported’ software (also known as adware) which looks the entire traffic generated by you and on this basis, it shows tons of undesired pop-ups. Currently, this adware are widely spread, due to the fact that most people are trying to find free software, download and install them on the computer without proper attention to the fact that the adware can penetrate into the PC along with them.
Technically, the adware is not a virus, but it does bad things, it generates lots of ads. It may download and install on to your PC other harmful and unwanted applications without your permission, force you to visit misleading or malicious pages. Moreover, the adware can install web-browser hijacker. Once installed, it’ll change your web browser setting such as home page, new tab page and search provider by default with an unwanted web page.
The ad supported software often modify all browser shortcuts which located on your Desktop to force you visit various annoying ad web sites. As a result, your web-browser can still redirect you to an intrusive ad web site despite your PC is actually free of ad supported software and other malicious software.
We suggest to get rid of the ad-supported software that reroutes your browser to undesired Fedsit.com web site, as soon as you found this problem, as it can direct you to web-resources that may load other malicious software on your PC.
Remove Fedsit.com redirect
Even if you’ve the up-to-date classic antivirus installed, and you’ve checked your PC system for malicious software and removed anything found, you need to do the tutorial below. The Fedsit.com popup ads removal is not simple as installing another antivirus. Classic antivirus software are not made to run together and will conflict with each other, or possibly crash MS Windows. Instead we recommend complete the manual steps below after that use Zemana Free, MalwareBytes Free or AdwCleaner, which are free software dedicated to find and get rid of ad-supported software that created to reroute your web browser to various ad web-sites such as Fedsit.com. Use these tools to ensure the adware is removed.
Remove Fedsit.com ads without any utilities
The useful removal tutorial for the Fedsit.com advertisements. The detailed procedure can be followed by anyone as it really does take you step-by-step. If you follow this process to remove Fedsit.com popups let us know how you managed by sending us your comments please.
Uninstall PUPs through the Microsoft Windows Control Panel
We suggest that you start the computer cleaning process by checking the list of installed programs and delete all unknown or suspicious software. This is a very important step, as mentioned above, very often the harmful applications such as adware and browser hijackers may be bundled with free applications. Delete the unwanted software can get rid of the undesired ads or web browser redirect.
Press Windows button 
, then click Search 
. Type “Control panel”and press Enter. If you using Windows XP or Windows 7, then click “Start” and select “Control Panel”. It will open the Windows Control Panel as shown on the image below.
Further, click “Uninstall a program” 
It will show a list of all programs installed on your PC. Scroll through the all list, and uninstall any suspicious and unknown applications.
Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to delete Fedsit.com redirect
After the ad-supported software is started, it can also change the web-browser’s shortcuts, adding an argument such as “http://site.address” into the Target field. Due to this, every time you launch the web-browser, it will open an annoying page.
Open the properties of the web-browser shortcut. Right click on the shortcut of infected internet browser and choose the “Properties” option and it’ll open the properties of the shortcut. Next, select the “Shortcut” tab and have a look at the Target field as displayed on the image below.
Normally, if the last word in the Target field is chrome.exe, iexplore.exe, firefox.exe. Be sure to pay attention to the extension, should be “exe”! All shortcuts which have been modified by adware such as Fedsit.com usually point to .bat, .cmd or .url files instead of .exe like below
Another variant, an address has been added at the end of the line. In this case the Target field looks like …Application\chrome.exe” http://site.address as displayed on the image below.
In order to fix a shortcut, you need to insert right path to the Target field or remove an address (if it has been added at the end). You can use the following information to fix your shortcuts which have been altered by adware.
| Chrome | C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe |
| C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | |
| Firefox | C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe |
| C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe | |
| Opera | C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe |
| C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe |
Once is finished, click OK to save changes. Repeat the step for all web browsers which are rerouted to the Fedsit.com intrusive web page.
Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks
Once installed, the ad supported software can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you start your PC system, it will show Fedsit.com annoying web site. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all malicious tasks which have been created by adware.
Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard simultaneously. This shows a prompt that titled as Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and click OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, as displayed below.
Task scheduler
In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Please select the first task, its properties will be show just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your computer. Found something like “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address”, then remove this harmful task. If you are not sure that executes the task, check it through a search engine. If it’s a component of the malicious application, then this task also should be removed.
Having defined the task that you want to remove, then press on it with the right mouse button and choose Delete as displayed on the screen below.
Delete a task
Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by malicious application. Once is finished, close the Task Scheduler window.
Remove Fedsit.com popups from Internet Explorer
The Internet Explorer reset is great if your browser is hijacked or you have unwanted addo-ons or toolbars on your browser, that installed by an malware.
First, start the IE, press 
) button. Next, click “Internet Options” as shown below.
In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, click Reset button. The IE will open the Reset Internet Explorer settings dialog box. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and press Reset button.
You will now need to reboot your personal computer for the changes to take effect. It will get rid of adware which created to reroute your browser to various ad web-pages such as Fedsit.com, disable malicious and ad-supported internet browser’s extensions and restore the Internet Explorer’s settings like home page, new tab and default search provider to default state.
Remove Fedsit.com pop-up advertisements from Chrome
If your Chrome web browser is redirected to undesired Fedsit.com web page, it may be necessary to completely reset your internet browser program to its default settings.
First launch the Chrome. Next, press the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (
). It will show the main menu. Further, click the option named “Settings”. Another way to open the Google Chrome’s settings – type chrome://settings in the web browser adress bar and press Enter.
The internet browser will show the settings screen. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the “Show advanced settings” link. Now scroll down until the “Reset settings” section is visible, like below and press the “Reset settings” button.
The Google Chrome will open the confirmation prompt. You need to confirm your action, click the “Reset” button. The web browser will run the process of cleaning. Once it is done, the web-browser’s settings including start page, newtab and search engine by default back to the values that have been when the Google Chrome was first installed on your PC.
Delete Fedsit.com ads from Firefox
The Firefox reset will keep your personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, web form auto-fill data, recover preferences and security settings, remove redirects to undesired Fedsit.com site and adware.
First, open the Firefox and press button. It will open the drop-down menu on the right-part of the web browser. Further, click the Help button (
) as displayed on the screen below
.
In the Help menu, select the “Troubleshooting Information” option. Another way to open the “Troubleshooting Information” screen – type “about:support” in the internet browser adress bar and press Enter. It will show the “Troubleshooting Information” page as on the image below. In the upper-right corner of this screen, click the “Refresh Firefox” button.
It will open the confirmation prompt. Further, click the “Refresh Firefox” button. The Firefox will start a process to fix your problems that caused by the adware that causes internet browsers to open annoying Fedsit.com ads. Once, it is finished, press the “Finish” button.
Fedsit.com popups automatic removal
Many antivirus companies have designed applications that help detect ad supported software and thereby remove Fedsit.com from the Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and MS Edge web browsers. Below is a a few of the free programs you may want to use. Your computer may have lots of potentially unwanted applications, ‘ad supported’ software and hijackers installed at the same time, so we recommend, if any unwanted or malicious program returns after rebooting the PC, then start your computer into Safe Mode and use the anti-malware tool once again.
How to automatically remove Fedsit.com pop up ads with Zemana Anti-malware
Zemana Anti-malware is a utility which can delete ad-supported software, PUPs, browser hijackers and other malware from your PC easily and for free. Zemana Anti-malware is compatible with most antivirus software. It works under Windows (10 – XP, 32 and 64 bit) and uses minimum of system resources.
Download Zemana by clicking on the following link and save it to your Desktop.
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Author: Zemana Ltd
Category: Security tools
Update: July 16, 2019
When downloading is complete, close all applications and windows on your PC system. Open a directory in which you saved it. Double-click on the icon that’s named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup as on the image below.
When the installation begins, you will see the “Setup wizard” which will allow you install Zemana Free on your PC system.
Once installation is finished, you will see window as shown on the screen below.
Now click the “Scan” button to start scanning your machine for the adware that causes browsers to open intrusive Fedsit.com pop ups. A system scan can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your personal computer. When a malware, ‘ad supported’ software or potentially unwanted software are detected, the count of the security threats will change accordingly.
Once the scan is done, Zemana AntiMalware (ZAM) will display a scan report. You may move items to Quarantine (all selected by default) by simply press “Next” button.
The Zemana Free will delete ad-supported software that causes internet browsers to show unwanted Fedsit.com pop ups and add threats to the Quarantine.
How to get rid of Fedsit.com with Malwarebytes
Manual Fedsit.com pop-up advertisements removal requires some computer skills. Some files and registry entries that created by the adware may be not completely removed. We recommend that run the Malwarebytes Free that are completely free your machine of adware. Moreover, the free application will help you to remove malware, PUPs, browser hijacker infections and toolbars that your personal computer can be infected too.
Download MalwareBytes from the following link.
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Author: Malwarebytes
Category: Security tools
Update: April 15, 2020
When downloading is finished, close all programs and windows on your system. Open a directory in which you saved it. Double-click on the icon that’s called mb3-setup like below.
When the install begins, you’ll see the “Setup wizard” that will help you setup Malwarebytes on your PC.
Once installation is finished, you’ll see window like below.
Now click the “Scan Now” button to start checking your computer for the adware which developed to reroute your web-browser to various ad pages like Fedsit.com. While the utility is checking, you can see count of objects and files has already scanned.
As the scanning ends, MalwareBytes Free will show a screen which contains a list of malware that has been detected. Next, you need to click “Quarantine Selected” button.
The Malwarebytes will now remove ad-supported software that causes multiple undesired pop up advertisements and add threats to the Quarantine. When disinfection is complete, you may be prompted to reboot your PC.
The following video explains step-by-step tutorial on how to remove hijacker, adware and other malicious software with MalwareBytes.
Scan your machine and get rid of Fedsit.com pop-up ads with AdwCleaner
If MalwareBytes anti-malware or Zemana cannot remove this adware, then we advises to run the AdwCleaner. AdwCleaner is a free removal tool for browser hijacker infections, potentially unwanted software, toolbars and ad-supported software which cause intrusive Fedsit.com pop ups to appear.
- Download AdwCleaner by clicking on the following link. Save it on your MS Windows desktop.
AdwCleaner download
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Version: 8.4.1
Author: Xplode, MalwareBytes
Category: Security tools
Update: October 5, 2024
- Select the file location as Desktop, and then click Save.
- Once the downloading process is finished, run the AdwCleaner, double-click the adwcleaner_xxx.exe file.
- If the “User Account Control” prompts, press Yes to continue.
- Read the “Terms of use”, and click Accept.
- In the AdwCleaner window, click the “Scan” for checking your personal computer for the adware which redirects your web browser to intrusive Fedsit.com web-site. While the utility is checking, you can see how many objects and files has already scanned.
- When the checking is done, you will be displayed the list of all detected items on your computer. Review the scan results and then click “Clean”. If the AdwCleaner will ask you to reboot your computer, click “OK”.
The steps shown in detail in the following video.
Use AdBlocker to block Fedsit.com and stay safe online
Use ad blocker application such as AdGuard in order to stop advertisements, malvertisements, pop-ups and online trackers, avoid having to install harmful and adware browser plug-ins and add-ons that affect your PC performance and impact your PC system security. Browse the Web anonymously and stay safe online!
- Download AdGuard program from the link below.
Adguard download
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Version: 6.4
Author: © Adguard
Category: Security tools
Update: November 15, 2018
- Once the download is done, start the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” program window. Follow the prompts.
- When the installation is done, press “Skip” to close the install program and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” to see an quick tutorial which will assist you get to know AdGuard better.
- In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you run your PC, AdGuard will start automatically and stop ads, web pages such Fedsit.com, as well as other harmful or misleading web sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the icon named AdGuard, which can be found on your desktop.
How can you prevent the Fedsit.com advertisements
These days certain free applications authors bundle third-party programs which could be potentially unwanted software like this adware, with a view to making some money. These are not free applications as install an unwanted programs on to your Microsoft Windows system. So whenever you install a new free program that downloaded from the Internet, be very careful during setup. Carefully read the EULA (a text with I ACCEPT/I DECLINE button), select custom or manual install method, uncheck all third-party programs.
To sum up
Once you have finished the guide above, your computer should be clean from ad-supported software that causes tons of unwanted Fedsit.com pop-up ads and other malware. The FF, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and MS Edge will no longer redirect you to various undesired web sites such as Fedsit.com. Unfortunately, if the few simple steps does not help you, then you have caught a new ad-supported software, and then the best way – ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.
