In my toolbar selection list I have unwanted items such
as adult toolbar and a xxxbar. This is the same place
you can pick for standard buttons, address bar and
links. How can I have these deleted? All they seem to
let me do is check and uncheck these items. They were
inadvertently downloaded by my kids and I would like to
remove them. Any help would be appreciated.


Bill

Hi Bill - You need to see what else you got stuck with. You kinda need to
know what the parasite(s) is/are before you can do much about fixing them
except to apply some general tools like AdAware and/or SpyBot S&D (see
below). Start here:

Download HijackThis, free, here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

Unzip it to any convenient folder, start it then press Scan. Click on
SaveLog when it's finished which will create hijackthis.log. Now click the
Config button, then Misc Tools and click on Generate StartupList.log which
will create Startuplist.txt

Then go to one of the following forums:

Spyware and Hijackware Removal Support, here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/in...74&act=SF&f=11

or Net-Integration here:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-b...ST;f=27;t=6949

or Tom Coyote here:
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.ph...9fa61cc7098fba

Sign in, then copy and paste both files into a message asking for
assistance, Someone will answer with detailed instructions for the removal
of your parasite(s).


For the general hijack case, the best way to start is to get Ad-Aware 6.0,
Build 181 or later, here: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/.
Update and run this regularly to get rid of most "spyware/hijackware" on
your machine. If it has to fix things, be sure to re-boot and rerun
AdAware again and repeat this cycle until you get a clean scan. The reason
is that it may have to remove things which are currently "in use" before it
can then clean up others.

Another excellent program for this purpose is SpyBot Search and Destroy
available here: http://security.kolla.de/ SpyBot Support Forum here:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-b.../ikonboard.cgi. I recommend
using both normally. After fixing things with SpyBot S&D, be sure to
re-boot and rerun SpyBot again and repeat this cycle until you get a clean
"no red" scan. The reason is that SpyBot sometimes has to remove things
which are currently "in use" before it can then clean up others.


Note that sometimes you need to make a judgement call about what these
programs report as spyware. See here, for example:
http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm


--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



In news:059301c3ae4d$be9a1670$(E-Mail Removed),
Bill <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> In my toolbar selection list I have unwanted items such
> as adult toolbar and a xxxbar. This is the same place
> you can pick for standard buttons, address bar and
> links. How can I have these deleted? All they seem to
> let me do is check and uncheck these items. They were
> inadvertently downloaded by my kids and I would like to
> remove them. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Bill

To remove the malware Toolbars: Use ToolbarCop:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/utils/ToolbarCop.exe

ToolbarCop removes the Toolbars, Toolbar buttons and unwanted
menu-extensions from Internet Explorer. It does not remove the spyware from
the system entirely. It is advisable to run Ad-Aware scan
(www.lavasoftusa.com), if the toolbar entries are not removed.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:059301c3ae4d$be9a1670$(E-Mail Removed)...
In my toolbar selection list I have unwanted items such
as adult toolbar and a xxxbar. This is the same place
you can pick for standard buttons, address bar and
links. How can I have these deleted? All they seem to
let me do is check and uncheck these items. They were
inadvertently downloaded by my kids and I would like to
remove them. Any help would be appreciated.


Bill