"search the web" tool bar thing!!

sLoWdElLdUdE · #1 03-05-2005, 04:10 PM

Ok, I have XP home on a dell laptop pc, and hovering just a tiny bit above my tool bae on the bottom right hand side of the screen, and it says search the web and when ever you move you mouse over the tool bar on the bottom of the screen it comes up and says search the web, the rest of the time its just sticking up a little bit. I cant find it in add remove programs, and i have used spybot search and destroy. any ideas?

snooker · #2 03-05-2005, 05:47 PM

Can you right click on it and see as to whether there is any options avaliable ?

Iain2005 · #3 03-05-2005, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by sLoWdElLdUdE

Ok, I have XP home on a dell laptop pc, and hovering just a tiny bit above my tool bae on the bottom right hand side of the screen, and it says search the web and when ever you move you mouse over the tool bar on the bottom of the screen it comes up and says search the web, the rest of the time its just sticking up a little bit. I cant find it in add remove programs, and i have used spybot search and destroy. any ideas?

click start and enter the tool bar name and then delete it it work for me but it was 8 months ago

Cache · #4 03-05-2005, 06:28 PM

see if there is an entry in add/remove porgrams or from start/programs list. if it has a uninstaller use it. after that download, install and update "Ad-aware" "Spybot S&D" and "CWShreder". also update you antivirus and run all these programs from safe mode. use some online scanners too. if non of that works, download HijackThis, make a permanent folder for it such as C:\Hijackthis, make sure you can view hidden file and folder including system files then run HijackThis and post your log.

tambits10 · #5 03-06-2005, 11:02 AM

Hi, I was going throught some of the answers to some questions and came across yours 'Cache'. I just out of curiousity clicked on your link in your answer to see which program you were talking about and I would like to let you know that it contains a virus.

Anyone else thinking of clicking on this beware.

Cheers

Cache · #6 03-06-2005, 11:34 AM

iv now edited the post so the link is no longer there.

could you please post the name of the virus just in case removal is required by anyone.

tambits10 · #7 03-06-2005, 11:47 AM

Here is the name of the virus, JS_LOOP.A
Here is a link on how to remove it.
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...P%2EA&VSect=Sn

Mistakes happen

Cheers

Cache · #8 03-07-2005, 02:35 AM

tambits10 and anyone else who has read this thread,

iv just been reliably informed by a "Member of Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals" that, the file from the link i posted contains NO virus. the warining you are reseaving when you scan the files is "a known false/postive".

i wont be re-posting the link but if anyone should need the LOP uninstaller just PM me. thx

nitram58 · #9 03-20-2005, 01:53 PM

go there, enjoy

http://toolbar.isearch.com/uninstall...ch_removal.exe