ARGH! Stupid toolbars...

[alexjohnson16]

I have 2 new toolbars in my IE and they are so damn annoying to me...

ISearch and Mywebsearch are the two bars... and I can't get rid of them, the toolbar menu is grayed out...

I ran Spybot and it cleaned me out, but these damn things are still here and the menu is still grayed out...

Help please... Thanks...

 

[AtTheGates]

Try Adaware or one of the other big ones. Run msconfig and see if it is trying to load anything at startup. Remove that and then run Spybot/Adaware.
I got annoyed with IE and switched to Firefox. The only spyware I get now are cookies.

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: alexjohnson16
I have 2 new toolbars in my IE and they are so damn annoying to me...

ISearch and Mywebsearch are the two bars... and I can't get rid of them, the toolbar menu is grayed out...

I ran Spybot and it cleaned me out, but these damn things are still here and the menu is still grayed out...

Help please... Thanks...

Dont forget to look in the add/remove program list. uninstall there, run spybot, then adware, and then hijackthis. GL

 

[OZEE]

Those are hijackers -- you'll need to follow these instructions to get rid of 'em.

 

[alexjohnson16]

Welp, I followed every instruction, ran SpyBot ran AdAware, ran hijack this...

STill there!

They are the only ones there now... I'm guessing something's reinstalling them when I open my browser again and these programs can't beat it???

It shows up in AA as a huntbar, I've gone into regedit and tried deleting the reg, but its in use so i can't do that... tried deleting the commonfiles folder it makes... can't do that either...

 

[boran]

well, go to the sticky adware remove programs, get all tools mentioned in the first post, maybe print teh text of teh first post, then get disconnected from teh internet, reboot, run all anti spyware tools, reboot again, run em all again, reboot again, then you should be clean, I do say should, you could have some new version. the problem is that some pieces of spyware grab eachother, IE: spyware A grabs spyware component B and vice versa, so as long as you're on teh internet and you cannot delete both in the time it takes for A to grab B and vice versa they'll both remain.

 

[OZEE]

Yes, they reinstall themselves. What did you do with hijackthis? Just run it??? You need to do more than that - it gives you a report of what's running in your computer and gives you an option to delete various things. Post the report from HJT here and let us review it *BEFORE* you delete anything so you don't maim your computer...

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: OZEE
Yes, they reinstall themselves. What did you do with hijackthis? Just run it??? You need to do more than that - it gives you a report of what's running in your computer and gives you an option to delete various things. Post the report from HJT here and let us review it *BEFORE* you delete anything so you don't maim your computer...

Agreed.

 

[kmmatney]

I'm also trying to clear some problems with my IE explorer, but in the meantime am using FireFox...