IE6 Rogue toolbars

[farmboy100]

I was wondering how to remove toolbars that have appeared in IE. I webpage hijacked my home page and also added a toolbar -i changed the home page back but I can't remove the toolbar other than unchecking it so that it doesn't show. Is there a simple way to do this? btw it calls itself frthllyprzt. Thankyou

 

[carrr]

First things first...download and run SpyBot (

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22262,00.asp

)

 

[smah]

Try BHODemon mentioned here: faq608-3482

 

[carrr]

I like BHODemon for shutting down the pests, but it won't help you to remove them...

 

[farmboy100]

Thanx guys, but SpyBot didn't work, it did find a lot of stuff though. One thing there was a lot of was called Backweb this wouldn't have anything to do with my problem would it? -It didn't want to remove it and Spy Sweeped had found it and told me it was used for legitimate purposes. Should I try BHODemon? Cheers

 

[carrr]

Go for it...BHODemon is a fine product. It simply doesn't facilitate removal or unwanted "Browser Helper Objects," rather it allows the user to disabel them after the program identifies them.

 

[carrr]

Here's info on BackWeb:

http://www.cexx.org/dlgli.htm

Personally, if I didn't put it there, I don't want it on my machine...but that call is yours to make.

 

[PAndersen]

Microsoft describes how to add toolbar buttons :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/ext/tutorials/button.asp

Maybe the information also can be used to remove toolbars by editing the registry (?)

 

[farmboy100]

Thanx, this has been really helpful but what I actually did while trying to reverse those registry steps was I found the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar and it contained a data value which had the name of the rogue toolbar as the value so I deleted this and now all is well. Thanx

 

[Slappy69]

Are you the farmboy100 from ebay?

 

[farmboy100]

No, I'm not even a member of ebay.

 

[ang33]

A search engine called startium has placed itself on my browser and for days I have tried to remove it. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PAndersen]

See thread608-597824.

 

[carrr]

ang33,
Download, unzip, and run Hijack This!

http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

Copy and paste your log back here. One of us will be able to offer removal advice upon seeing it.