#$%*@# "Search Toolbar" !!

This insidious program somehow installs itself on my computer. Its sort of a super bling-bling IE toolbar and absolutely reduces my computers speed to a crawl. It takes over 10 seconds just to open Internet Explorer.

I can always delete it in add/remove programs, but I sure wish I knew how this sucker installs itself. I've got a Pop-up Stopper but that doesn't help. Is this a Microsoft product?

Anybody else have this problem. How about a class action lawsuit??

 

Depends on which "Search Toolbar" it is... (aside from describing one "toolbar" & removal, link has other "removal" links, as well)
http://www.spyany.com/program/article_ad_rm_Search_Toolbar.html

Click on this for other results
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22search+toolbar%22+spyware&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

I run this program (CWShredder) everyday. It gets all of the "search" spyware and malware.

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch

 

www.lavasoftusa.com <--- download Adaware, do the update, scan system.

beware of links from this site and others. some people on here actually make their money by having apps install on your system by visiting their site. however, the #1 most frequent way of finding these sites are by searching for lyrics.

 

Since Ad-Aware doesn't catch all of these things, I've also had great success with Spy Sweeper from Webroot: http://www.webroot.com/wb/downloads/index.php