What is Fdownloader?
Vendors of Fdownloader promote their product on its official websites as an excellent download manager that should help you manage various download tasks and processes in a more efficient way than ever before. While it sounds like a tool worthy of having you must be warned about its functionality. Malware researchers at our internal labs have, in fact, categorized this application as a potentially unwanted program mostly because it works in a quite suspicious and invasive way. In reality, this download manager does not perform in the way that it should, and its questionable features obviously outweigh the positive ones; thus, we firmly advise you to remove Fdownloader. Our team encourages you to use a different, more reliable download manager instead of this one. Read the rest of this article and find out how this suspicious tool works and why its removal is so important.
What does Fdownloader do?
The dubious functionality is one of the reasons Fdownloader has been dubbed as a potentially unwanted program. At first this tool might seem totally normal and for many non-advanced computer users it might continue to look that way but after an in-depth analysis of it we have come across some suspicious features that it exhibits. It has been found out that this tool might provide you with links to third-party web content. This information is disclosed in their Privacy Policy. Thus, by using this suspicious download manager you might be presented with various third-party links, which, it goes without saying, should be avoided at all times since there is no way to determine where you could get redirected to. Also, we have discovered that this tool collects various data about the user’s browsing habits and is likely selling or sharing it with unidentified third-parties. Such questionable functionality of Fdownloader is the main reason we advise you to delete it without any hesitation.
Where does Fdownloader come from?
Another reason Fdownloader has been dubbed as a potentially unwanted program is its questionable distribution. Even though, you can download from its official websites, our reports show that in quite a few cases it is spread via software bundles, which are obtained from questionable third-party download sites. Thus, you should stay away from such sites at all times as it will significantly reduce the chances of infecting your PC with some unwanted third-party program. Also, you should never skip a single step while installing a program on your computer because you might skip on a chance of canceling the installation of some suspicious or even potentially malicious application. Lastly, but most importantly make sure to have an active professional antimalware tool on your PC. This is paramount to your virtual security since such a tool will always warn you about suspicious websites or installers in advance.
How to remove Fdownloader
Make sure to conduct the removal of Fdownloader carefully because a single mistake could mean that this potentially unwanted program was not deleted entirely. This is an instance you do not want to find yourself in because we have discovered that at times Fdownloader could silently restore itself by using just a few leftover files or registry entries. To avoid such situation, you should run an in-depth analysis of your PC for potential leftovers as soon as you have executed the manual removal.
How to remove Fdownloader from your operating system
Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Click the Windows button.
- Select Control Panel.
- Click the Uninstall a program option.
- Select Fdownloader.
- Click Uninstall.
Windows XP
- Click Start and then select Control Panel.
- Click Add or Remove Programs.
- Double-click the unwanted application.
- Confirm that you want to remove it.
Windows 8
- Move the mouse pointer to the lower-left corner of the screen.
- Right-click and select Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a program.
- Right-click Fdownloader and select the Uninstall option.
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