Tool Bar

[Cheri]

I am having a problem - hope I am in the right place. I
have 2 tool bars that keep coming up.

I-Lookup.com and Global Web Search.com

When I go to VIEW and Select TOOL BAR I can delete the
check mark and they will go away, then I click on the
LOCK TOOL BARS

Next time I log on, there are tose 2 miserable tool bars
and they are advertising porn. Anyone know how I can get
rid of them for good?

 

[YoKenny]

Browser hijacker parasite:
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ILookup.html

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Ad-Aware is a good remover of these nasties and use the online update to get
the latest reference file before running.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Get and update SpyBot Search and Destroy through its online update function.
http://tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/

Get a good HOSTS file to stop theses nasties.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

SpywareBlaster also stops these nasties.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Keep these things up to date as new nasties come along just like
viruses/worms.

 

[Francois Dion]

I'm having the same problem with my toolbar, I keep
getting a toolbar from Spidersearch.com and it creates pop-
up windows for online gambling which I do not want at all!
Have you found a solution to your problem? If yes, reply
to me at my e-mail adress. Thanks

 

[Ramesh [MS-MVP]]

First option is to run Ad-Aware scan (www.lavasoftusa.com). If the toolbar
entries are not removed still,

ToolbarCop:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/utils/ToolbarCop.exe

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Regards,

Ramesh (MS-MVP)
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

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

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I am having a problem - hope I am in the right place. I
have 2 tool bars that keep coming up.

I-Lookup.com and Global Web Search.com

When I go to VIEW and Select TOOL BAR I can delete the
check mark and they will go away, then I click on the
LOCK TOOL BARS

Next time I log on, there are tose 2 miserable tool bars
and they are advertising porn. Anyone know how I can get
rid of them for good?

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Francois - This has been showing up a lot lately and seems to be caused
by some malware called CoolWebSearch. Do the following:

Download and run: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip to
remove the parasite

Then download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/iegentabs.reg to restore your
tabs and remove any restrictions that the parasite has put in place.

However, this also indicates that you may have acquired some other malware
along the way. If you go to this page at Jim Eshelman's site, here:
http://aumha.org/a/noads.htm and wait a little bit (be patient), an analysis
of a number of possible parasites on your machine will be made to help you
identify and remove them. NOTE: You will need to disable Ad Blocking in Zone
Alarm 3.x, if present or any other Ad Blocking software which interferes
with Java Scripting for this scan to work. You should get a message between
the two lines of **** giving the results of the scan.

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-bin/forums/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


Since this is a new variant, please post back here with your results to
benefit others.


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



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