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Old September 30th 04, 06:20 PM
Darren Harris
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Default @#$%! Toolbars

It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it
worse when some new crap inserts itself there.

A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea
where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately,
and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which
work on my WindowsME system).

The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm
wondering if anyone else has this problem.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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Old September 30th 04, 06:33 PM
Mike M
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Darren,

I've no idea why neither SpyBot nor AdAware work on your system since you
give no details however they are working well here on my Win Me systems as
they are for others.

There is no good reason why you should have any unwanted toolbars so I
feel your first priority should be to checkout your PC and remove all
unwanted malware be it a virus, trojan or commercial parasite. You know
of some of the tools to use, others include BHODemon, CWShredder and
HijackThis in addition to your preferred AV application.

As to your firewall this won't necessarily prevent the addition of
toolbars and the like as these are often installed as drive bys when
visiting certain web sites and preventing this is more a question of not
clicking boxes and setting ones security accordingly.

See also: Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search
Engines http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm and also Browser
Hijacking http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/
--?
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Darren Harris wrote:

It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it
worse when some new crap inserts itself there.

A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea
where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately,
and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which
work on my WindowsME system).

The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm
wondering if anyone else has this problem.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


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Old September 30th 04, 06:37 PM
Kerry Liles
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Firewalls typically have no ability to prevent you from acquiring
toolbars... most of the crapware that installs toolbars hope people are
click happy and click OK whenever they see that option [some stupid video
card vendors offer an option to force the mouse pointer on the OK button of
a dialog box - and have this ON by default, but I digress]

It would help immensely if you could figure out the NAME of the toolbar that
has glommed onto you.

You could then use www.google.com to search for, let's see:
xxxxxxxxx +uninstall remove
where xxxxxxxxxx is the name of the toolbar.

One of the hits with Google might be a removal tool or instructions on how
to do so yourself.

HTH - good luck





"Darren Harris" wrote in message
m...
It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it
worse when some new crap inserts itself there.

A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea
where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately,
and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which
work on my WindowsME system).

The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm
wondering if anyone else has this problem.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.



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Old September 30th 04, 07:16 PM
-Lone_Wolf-
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Darren Harris wrote:
It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it
worse when some new crap inserts itself there.

A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea
where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately,
and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which
work on my WindowsME system).

The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm
wondering if anyone else has this problem.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


I am not sure when I picked up the new option in IE but I now have under
tools a "Manage Add-ons..." option that once clicked lists all the crap not
native to IE allowing you to delete at will. This may have been added in the
XP SP2 and I am assuming you are using WIN ME so I am not sure if this
option is available in your OS?

John


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Old October 1st 04, 01:21 AM
John Corliss
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Darren Harris wrote:

It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it
worse when some new crap inserts itself there.

A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea
where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately,
and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which
work on my WindowsME system).

The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm
wondering if anyone else has this problem.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.


Darren, what browser and version of it are you using?

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Regards from John Corliss
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware,
nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses
or warez please.
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Old October 1st 04, 01:23 AM
Z
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Tim Weaver wrote:
One of the best things you can do is get IE-SPYAD. This makes a lot of
entries into the registry which puts known spyware sites into the restricted
zone where they can't execute scripts. This will keep anything from being
installed. Also, in your Internet Options - Advanced tab, make sure both
"Enable Install On Demand" options are unticked.


Or download and use Mozilla, a browser without the gaping holes and
horrible default settings that come with Internet Explorer.
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Old October 1st 04, 11:43 AM
Mel
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"Darren Harris" wrote in message m...
It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it
worse when some new crap inserts itself there.

I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which
work on my WindowsME system).


Then chances are that you may have acquired one of the more unpleasant
species of spyware and that it is disabling them.

http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ runs a script that can identify some parasites
and provide removal information.

HijackThis http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
may be helpful

"It does not target specific programs/URLs, just the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites. As a result, false
positives are imminent and unless you are sure what you're doing, you should always consult with knowledgeable folks (e.g. the
forums) before deleting anything."

Also autoruns http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...autoruns.shtml
Can remove or temporarily disable programs that run at start-up (and Browser Helper objects)

If you are using IE, you should also check your security zones settings are set at Default
or better and your trusted publisher list (Internet Options -Content Publishers button)




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Old October 1st 04, 11:51 AM
Mel
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"Mel" wrote in message ...
Also autoruns http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...autoruns.shtml

Can remove or temporarily disable programs that run at start-up (and Browser Helper objects)


Sorry, meant it can remove or disable a programs autorun entry.


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Old October 1st 04, 05:05 PM
brainz
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"Darren Harris" wrote

It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it
worse when some new crap inserts itself there.


Sounds like a job for hijackThis.exe
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155
kind regards
brainz


 




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