locked toolbar

[Guest]

I let a friend use my computer, and afterwards i had a new toolbar on IE6. It is "ISEARCH." It doesn't appear harmful or anything, but I cant get rid of it. Under the view menu - "toolbars," the options are all grayed out. I can not deselect the "ISEARCH" toolbar or any of the others. "Help" tells me that there should be an option to lock/unlock toolbars, but I can not locate it. Anyone run up against this before? Anyone know how I can get control back?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

To deal with issues caused by any sort of "adware" and/or
"spyware,"such as Gator, Comet Cursors, Smiley Central, Xupiter,
Bonzai Buddy, or KaZaA, and their remnants, that you've deliberately
(but without understanding the consequences) installed, two products
that are quite effective (at finding and removing this type of
scumware) are Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.de and SpyBot Search &
Destroy from www.safer-networking.org/. Both have free versions.
It's even possible to use SpyBot Search & Destroy to "immunize" your
system against most future intrusions. I use both and generally
perform manual scans every week or so to clean out cookies, etc.

Additionally, manual removal instructions for the most common
varieties of scumware are available here:

PC Hell Spyware and Adware Removal Help
http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml


Bruce Chambers

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