Sunday, March 30, 2014

Beware Of The Freeware Browser Toolbars

Not all free browser toolbars available online are useful. Some of them are actually malware designed to infect your computer system. These malware toolbars slow it down. It is imperative to get rid of them as early as you can.

Think twice before you download a freeware browser toolbar

You need to think twice before you download any freeware application online. Most of the virus applications are launched online, disguised as a useful toolbar or app. Since such a toolbar is available for free, you might not bother about verifying where it came from, who is manufacturing it, and so on.

The general assumption is that since it is does not cost anything, let us just install, try it out and if it is not useful, uninstall later on. However, such malware toolbars once brought in are not that easy to get rid of. A good example is the Search Here toolbar.

How to remove Search Here toolbar


Search Here toolbar is one of these annoying freeware toolbars that refuses to leave your system. This normally comes as a bundled application with some other program that you might have installed recently. It is not always easy to get rid of this malware, if you do not do it thoroughly. Here is how to remove Search Here toolbar.

Now, in order to remove the toolbar completely from the system you have to remove the Search Here toolbar application from the system, as well as the toolbar add-on from the browser. First, go to the Add-ons or Extensions options, from the Tools or Settings menu in your default browser.

There you would find the Search Here toolbar along with the other add-ons you have in your browser. You need to highlight the Search Here add-on by a single mouse click and you would see the options like Update, Disable, Remove, etc. Uninstall the toolbar using the Remove option and close the browser.

Now, go to the Add or Remove Programs or the Programs and Features option from your system Control Panel. There, you would find the Search Here application in the list of all the programs and applications, you have installed in your system. Select the toolbar and click the Uninstall or remove option to get rid of it from the system.

When you restart the system after these steps, the Search Here toolbar would no longer be present in your system.

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