What is FilmFanatic Toolbar?
FilmFanatic Toolbar is potentially unwanted software developed by Mindspark Interactive Network, coming to a computer without user consent. FilmFanatic gets on your PC bundled with free programs (e.g. archivers, players and many other well-known programs) via web-downloaders. For certain users, FilmFanatic may seem like a useful toolbar that provides a variety of functions, such as watching movies online for free, access to popular sites and social networks, weather forecast and more. However, this can give a lot of problems. It hijacks many popular browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer) and irreversibly changes browser settings, homepage and default search engine. Also, FilmFanatic Toolbar collects users’ personal information, browsing history and analyzes the activity on the network. This information is sent to third parties for unknown purposes. In addition, the program significantly reduces the performance of your PC and complicates browsing. Do not risk the safety of your information. Remove FilmFanatic Toolbar right now.
How FilmFanatic Toolbar gets on your PC?
Malicious software infects a computer without the user consent. Usually, FilmFanatic comes with free applications and programs that you can download from popular free sites such as download.com, Softpedia, Freewarefiles, Shareware, Soft32 and many others. These sites tend to create their own download managers that implement a potentially unwanted program. Users are not attentive during installation, so the computer can be infected. Always follow the important rules. Read user agreement. Take your time. Do not press the “Next” button, if you are not sure that the program will not harm your computer. Select advanced installation type. Do not settle for questionable deals and carefully follow the installation process. If FilmFanatic Toolbar has already penetrated to the PC, you can use our instructions to remove it immediately.
How to remove FilmFanatic Toolbar from your computer?
To uninstall FilmFanatic Toolbar remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have FilmFanatic Toolbar in their database. You can try to use them for removing FilmFanatic Toolbar.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as FilmFanatic Toolbar.
You can try both of these products to remove FilmFanatic Toolbar
Or uninstall FilmFanatic Toolbar manually.
Step 1: Remove FilmFanatic Toolbar from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find FilmFanatic Toolbar.
- Click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find FilmFanatic Toolbar and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
- Open the Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find FilmFanatic Toolbar, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
Windows 10:
- Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
- Click on App & features on the left menu.
- On the right side, locate FilmFanatic Toolbar and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
- Click on Uninstall to confirm.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10
Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
After that remove FilmFanatic Toolbar from your browser.
Step 2: Remove FilmFanatic Toolbar from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find FilmFanatic Toolbar.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose FilmFanatic Toolbar.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open IE.
- Push Alt + T.
- Click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable FilmFanatic Toolbar.
- Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
- Click Remove button.
- If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Step 3: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings
Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:- Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
- Choose Settings.
- Click Show advanced settings.
- Go to Reset browser settings section.
- Click Reset browser settings.
- In the dialog that appears, click Reset.
Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.
Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:- Open Mozilla Firefox.
- Go to Help.
- Go to Troubleshooting information.
- Click Reset Firefox… button.
Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.
Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
- Click Internet options.
- Go to Advanced tab.
- Click Reset button.
- Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
- Click Reset button.
Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.
Step 4: Remove following files and folders of FilmFanatic Toolbar:
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Written by Rami Douafi