What is Speedownloader?

Speedownloader – a program that gets into your computer in the form of an extension to the browser. Speedownloader hijacks Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. The main objective of this program – the dissemination of advertisements during your browsing. Speedownloader starts to display advertising banners and hundreds of “certificates”, pop-ups, coupons and more that can be related to popular online stores, such as eBay, AliExpress, Walmart and so on. These pop-ups can occur at any time during the browsing. Speedownloader constantly annoys the user. Speedownloader shows the “best” deals, discounts and the like. Most of these offers are not real. Also, Speedownloader slows down your computer and significantly reduces browser performance. If you find that your computer is infected with this program, you will need to remove Speedownloader immediately.

How Speedownloader gets on your PC?

Similar programs belong to potentially unwanted programs. These programs come on a computer without user consent, so you may have overlooked the penetration of this program. PUP is installed on PC bundled with freeware program such as archivers, download managers, players and so on. The user must be considerate during the installation process to prevent the penetration of unwanted programs. To do this, you need to read the user agreement. Do not agree to install unknown or suspicious programs. Not need to trust programs from unknown publishers. Always follow the installation process and do not rush to click “Next”. If your computer is already infected, you can use our instructions listed below to get rid of Speedownloader.

How to remove Speedownloader from your computer?

To uninstall Speedownloader remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Speedownloader in their database. You can try to use them for removing Speedownloader.

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Alternative Solution:

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You can try both of these products to remove Speedownloader

Or uninstall Speedownloader manually.

Step 1: Remove Speedownloader from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Speedownloader.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Speedownloader and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Speedownloader, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Speedownloader and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. 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 Speedownloader from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Speedownloader from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Speedownloader.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Speedownloader.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Speedownloader.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Speedownloader:

Remove following registry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi