How to remove huntbar

[Nick5324]

LMK if this is the wrong forum. A friend of mine has some spyware called huntbar installed on their computer. "wintools" was uninstalled from Add/Remove programs, and Spybot S&D will find huntbar, but says it can't remove it b/c it is in use. Running Spybot in Safemode has the same result. Next, these instructions were followed for manual uninstall, but none of the files to be removed were on the computer! All variants were tried. The other things mentioned on that site to be removed through add/remove do not appear on their list. Any ideas how to get rid of huntbar? Thanks in advance.

 

[emilyek]

Microsoft's anti-spyware beta might do it.

HijackThis might do it.

 

[Nick5324]

Originally posted by: emilyek
Microsoft's anti-spyware beta might do it.

HijackThis might do it.

I posted the HiJackThis Log file for review in Schadenfroh's thread at the top of this forum, thanks emilyek. I forgot about MS anti-spyware. Any other ideas welcome.

 

[mechBgon]

Besides the Microsoft AntiSpyware, also you might do this:

1) download this text file and get the McAfee manual scan tool I mention. Unzip it but don't scan just yet. If you have Spybot S&D installed, update it and also Immunize. Save the text file.

2) download and install SpywareBlaster from here. Update it, then switch to the Protection tab and click "enable all protections."

3) Disable System Restore.

4) Reboot into Safe Mode.

5) In Safe Mode, open Task Manager and try to kill each process except for explorer.exe. If stuff won't let itself be killed, that's fine, but try.

6) fire off that manual scanner using the command in the text file. It will take a long time, particularly if it hits compressed files, so...

7) ...take a snack break! And maybe watch a movie or something, depending how much data you've got.

8) after that, while in Safe Mode, run a Spybot Search & Destroy scan if you have Spybot installed.

9) once you've run the scan, go to C:\Program Files and see if the program's folder, called Toolbar, is still there. If it is there, right-click it, choose Security, and remove all permissions, period, then leave the folder like that. If the folder does not exist, create the Toolbar folder and again deny all access to it. :evil:

10) reboot into normal mode and run another Microsft AS scan and Spybot scan, and see if it stayed dead.