It also appears as Drive Cleaner and acts in the way that it takes me to a website where I am offered spyware software. It is not possible to remove the safetytoolbar by unticking in the View menu or by uninstalling it. If anyone else has experienced this, please advise on how to get rid of it?
Grateful for any help given
2007-03-04 23:11:55 · 8 answers · asked by Knut K 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Try to get a Full Copy of a program called Ad-Aware SE as that will surely get rid of any and all Spyware that you might have installed in place on your Hard Drive!!!
Failing that try going into your regedit file which you can find if you look in your Hard Drive which is usually under C:/ in the My Computer section... Windows and then you can choose to remove a few things etc...
**CAUTION!!! ONLY USE THE REGEDIT FILE SYSTEM IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING!!!**
apart from that I'd suggest looking for some sort of Ad-Aware / Spyware remover... Ad-Aware SE is by far the best though!!! ^-^
Good Luck!!!
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2007-03-04 23:19:45 · answer #1 · answered by SHADOW 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
install avg. www.grisoft.com and an alternate method- this is a little bit risky - click run in the start menu and type regedit it opens the registry editor... what is the manufacturer of that program eg. yahoo messenger is created by yahoo... find the title by clicking F3 find that asafety toolbar stuff then delete it. WARNING: be careful or you'll damage programs...just a little bit risky but if you managed to get out of this youre good to go again
2007-03-05 07:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To remove, install SuperAntiSpyware and run in safe mode
http://www.superantispyware.com/?tag=GOOGLE-SUPERANTISPYWARE
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I recommend installing the following 5 malware detection programs on all systems. Run at least once every month.
Ad-Aware SE Personal (update + full scan)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
Spybot Search & Destroy (update + immunize + scan)
Enable SDHelper, do not optional tea timer. After installation: update + scan + immunize
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html
SpywareBlaster: Update then open and click “enable all protection”. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SUPERAntiSpyware free version: (update + scan)
http://www.superantispyware.com/
CCleaner: Set to run when computer starts. Removes tracking cookies.
Place cookies you want to keep in the save list. Do not run “Scan for Issues” (registry cleaner)
http://www.ccleaner.com/
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I also recommend the following::
Malicious Software Removal Tool (run “full scan”)
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx
Windows Defender (Free active spyware protection)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Microsoft OneCare Live, run “full service scan”
Updates windows, virus and spyware scan, disk cleanup, disk fragmentation (if needed), backs up registry and then cleans registry, and checks for open firewall ports.
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service (An automatic service to help with slow log off and unreconciled profile problems)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
Rootkit revealer: (advanced) Close all programs first and then run.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/RootkitRevealer.mspx
Do nothing at this time with the results! Not all results will be malware! Google each result.
2007-03-05 07:35:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get windows defender from
http://www.microsoft.co.uk and search for it..
or google it and you should be able to get a link to it..
then scan your pc, and you may find more then 1, and then get rid of it..
actually heres the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
2007-03-05 07:22:45 · answer #4 · answered by Vinz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out
http://computer-probs.blogspot.com/
It gives free downloads of anti spyware which can detect and eliminate.Best wishes
2007-03-05 17:46:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
run smitfFraudFix tool
http://viruscleaner.blogspot.com/2006/12/smitfraudfix.html
use spybot s&d
http://bestofrest.blogspot.com/2007/02/spybot-search-destroy-antispyware.html
2007-03-05 07:16:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get superantispyware,spybot and avg antispy run them all it will clean it off
2007-03-05 07:15:36 · answer #7 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nuke it with a complete hardrive wipe
2007-03-05 07:26:32 · answer #8 · answered by lord mada 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋