Television Fanatic Toolbar is an adware which is disguised into useful browser extension that may be installed without user’s permission into the most popular browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Upon the installation of Television Fanatic Toolbar your default homepage and search engine will be changed without your authorization. Technically Television Fanatic Toolbar is not a virus, however it can harm your computer.
Often, users are infected with Television Fanatic Toolbar while downloading and installing freeware or shareware programs from unofficial websites. During the installation of freeware application, users are not paying attention to the End User License Agreement page and by skipping that important part they are accepting the installation of any third party program bundled with freeware. Most of the times, those third party applications are adware, spyware and browser hijackers that will change user’s default homepage and other browser configurations.
Television Fanatic is being promoted through various advertising schemes, but bundling with other programs is the most popular way. That’s why we recommend always paying attention to the EULA and opting for custom installation to avoid adware programs. Once installed, Television Fanatic Toolbar will only change your default homepage and search engine, it will also keep track of your internet activities. It will monitor your search queries, browsing history and cookies. All of the information will be sent to the third parties to study your preferences and provide you with ads based on your interests. After some time you will be constantly redirected to the same websites over and over again. Television Fanatic adware will be intrusive and will not ask you whether you want to see ads and be redirected or not. Also, those redirects are very dangerous since they can redirect you to various dubious websites where you can get infected by viruses and other unwanted malicious programs.
Now, as you know all the malicious activities that Television Fanatic Toolbar performs on your PC you should immediately get rid of it as quickly as possible. The removal process of this adware is not easy, because the program changes system settings and system registry and if you delete some wrong entry it may lead into system failure and loss of important data. However, if you follow our removal guide below, you will be able to completely remove Television Fanatic Toolbar and homepage from your computer. Also we recommend trying our automatic removal tool, it will make the removal process of Television Fanatic easy and quick.
Symptoms of Television Fanatic Toolbar infection on your computer can be: computer crashes, unusual homepage or search engine on your browser, unwanted pop-up ads and advertising banners. We recommend to buy our automatic removal tool. This removal tool has been tested for Television Fanatic Toolbar threat removal and it is easy to use.
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