Unwanted Browser Search Icons

[Simon Kew]

Again this sound like a common problem but my browser has
been hijacked to the extent that I now have unwanted
icons displaying on the search bar of my browser (by
search bar I mean the one with back, forward, search,
favourites, etc).

The icons are 'IQ tests' and (not
surprisingly) 'Erotic'. Can someone instruct me how to
permanently remove these as I've run all the spyware, ad-
aware fixes I know without success.

Thanks

 

[Jurren Bouman]

Again this sound like a common problem but my browser has
been hijacked to the extent that I now have unwanted
icons displaying on the search bar of my browser (by
search bar I mean the one with back, forward, search,
favourites, etc).

The icons are 'IQ tests' and (not
surprisingly) 'Erotic'. Can someone instruct me how to
permanently remove these as I've run all the spyware, ad-
aware fixes I know without success.

Thanks

Check out this website:
"Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites"
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

 

[Sean Reeves]

If you right-click on the icons a context menu will appear
and you should click "customize" on the bottom. remove the
buttons you were talking about from the dialog box that
will appear after clicking customize, and then use a
program called "Spybot - Search & Destroy" to remove the
spyware. If you've already used this program without
success, then I don't know what to say. That program has
never failed me