How to remove Fastcaptcha.top pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Fastcaptcha.top pop-up alerts can show up out of the blue, covering the content of the page you checked or opening your browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Fastcaptcha.top ad can cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guide of Fastcaptcha.top popups removal in multiple manners, as well as examining your system for extra malware presence.

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What are Fastcaptcha.top pop-ups?

Fastcaptcha.top popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a substantial amount of profit for adware representatives. These promotions might contain sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to malicious content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Fastcaptcha.top push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, affordable and extremely efficient advertising instrument¹. It permits the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is available at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this possibility and get it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a much-loved thing among the advertising departments of huge internet sellers.

Nevertheless, such a successful system could not be missed by virus creators. Option to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware attack is an ideal basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Fastcaptcha.top promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short summary for the Fastcaptcha.top site

How have I got the Fastcaptcha.top virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that cause the Fastcaptcha.top popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is provided as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people frequently make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of programs are unsafe, because it is very simple to integrate a Fastcaptcha.top malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Fastcaptcha.top popup malware can also be hidden in the ad somewhere on the odd website. Such websites are typically loaded with colorful and blinking ads, and their owners usually permit any kind of promotions to be posted on their web page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider knows what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may also get something a lot more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious promotions.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially undesirable applications, like Fastcaptcha.top pop-up virus may cause a wide range of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can show you the advertisements, where you are offered to get another unknown program, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also chosen as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Fastcaptcha.top pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Fastcaptcha.top adware removal includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and afterwards deal with the consequences of its activity. The elimination task is very simple, because it may be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its significant resources usage, along with some bugs that may be serious for some groups of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. What’s more, a variety of trojan viruses have the ability to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will certainly erase the viruses from your system and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s manage Fastcaptcha.top adware initially.

Removing Fastcaptcha.top popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of Fastcaptcha.top malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps :

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original :

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions :

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :

After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default :

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option :


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

When the browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will definitely be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following content³:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Nevertheless, there is one problem that makes things much more difficult to fix, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Fastcaptcha.top pop-up ads are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt to open settings once more.

Reset your browser settings with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.