A Toolbar that will not go away

[Guest]

A toolbar has recently appeared on internet explorer, it does not load until my home page is fully displayed.

It consists of
a search section, that if clicked on takes me to - lop.com then another website pops up behind with similar results.
then there are several buttons, that relate to the content of the page that you are looking at (ie. if on a bank website the buttons read; loans , internet security , online banking...)

I was not sure how it got there as I didn't request it, so i'm perhaps a little concerned about it.

When trying to remove it from the toolbar, if I right click then un-check a tick next to 'pop for bash' the toolbar disappears until i go to a different website...where i would repeat the procedure.

When trying to find out what was happening, i did a serch then looked for the cookies, this came up with - @mywebsearch.com and i think - @searchweb2.com

I found a folder in my program files called mywebsearch and i removed it to my recycling bin; it contained folders (and files)
-mywebsearch -SrchAstt
-bar -History (search 1kb)
-Settings (settings DAT file 1kb, settings HTML 1kb)

Any advice on the safe removal of this toolbar would be most welcomed, thank-you

 

[H Leboeuf]

LOP is a very nasty parasite.

LOP http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/lop.html
More: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#lop
More: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/lop/
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Before you do any thing get this tool in case your winsock get corrupt after
the removal.
The you may need them if not able to connect to any site.
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm (Win 98. ME )
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html (for Win2k, XP)

Now:

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.

Get AdAware and SpyBot and run them both. Keep them up to date.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Additional link:
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm

You may need this removal tool.
More: Complete list by variant with up-to-date information.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
More: Removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip

Important: "So how did I get infected in the first place?"
http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showtopic=3051

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
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A toolbar has recently appeared on internet explorer, it does not load

until my home page is fully displayed.

It consists of
a search section, that if clicked on takes me to - lop.com then

another website pops up behind with similar results.

then there are several buttons, that relate to the content of the

page that you are looking at (ie. if on a bank website the buttons read;
loans , internet security , online banking...)

I was not sure how it got there as I didn't request it, so i'm perhaps a little concerned about it.

When trying to remove it from the toolbar, if I right click then un-check

a tick next to 'pop for bash' the toolbar disappears until i go to a
different website...where i would repeat the procedure.

When trying to find out what was happening, i did a serch then looked for

the cookies, this came up with - @mywebsearch.com and i think -
@searchweb2.com

I found a folder in my program files called mywebsearch and i removed it

to my recycling bin; it contained folders (and files)

 

[Guest]

Run this: http://lop.com/new_uninstall.exe
Sit back and relax.