How to find & eliminate browser extensions?

[Hans Mosberg]

As of yesterday, IE6 (on WinXpPro - all current updates) started to behave
strangely: Whenever a website had completed to download (i.e. whenever the
"Done" would be expected in the lower left corner), the browser just closes,
including secondary windows (if they had been automatically opened during
website download).
This drove me nuts, reboot wouldn't help, nor any other kneejerk measures.
Finally, I turned off "enable third party browser extensions" (Internet
Options > Internet Properties > Advanced), which - to my surprise -
corrected this odd behavior.

However, I would like to have my Google toolbar back - which requires
reenabling third party browser extensions - and which takes me back to the
browser closing spontaneously after completing to load any website.

What is going on here, and how can I purge all browser extension that may
have installed into IE6, to start with a "clean slate", so that the Google
tool bar may be reenabled?

Your help is much appreciated!

PS: pls. CC my email below!

Cheers,
Hans Mosberg

(e-mail address removed)

 

[H Leboeuf]

Rule out parasites. Most Malware using BHO will deactivate when 3rd party
browser is off.

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.

More: This may be caused by a third-party program (adware, spyware,
parasite).
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


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