SOS - how do you get rid of an unwanted tool bar?

[merh]

I have the Hotbar thingy across the top of my screen...how the hell do I get rid of it?

:shrug:

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. smells like spyware

I would go into your C drive and see if you can uninstall the program

[merh]

5. program was installed - hotbar remains

:argh: Computer hell! :argh:

Thanks for the reply though! :hi:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. got to "control panel" ....then "add/remove software" click .....

"Hotbar toolbar" and cluick "remove"

[merh]

6. That seems simple enough,

I'll try that, thanks! :hi:

[snowbear]

3. The website "PC Hell" has tons of easy to use info...

For disabling crap like that! :bounce:

Works everytime for me..

edit .. oops: PC Hell: http://www.pchell.com/

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. Here's their link for the Hotbar

www.pchell.com/support/hotbar.shtml

Thanks, Larissa. I've never heard of PC HEll before!

:yourock:

[merh]

10. Thanks so much

:hi:

[merh]

7. I never heard of that site, thanks for the link.

:pals: Definitely one to add to my bookmarks! :hi:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. Go to pcworld and download .....

Ad-Aware
Spybot
Spysweeper - Thirty Day trial

www.pcworld.com

If you have any questions PM me.

[merh]

9. Thank you!

Will do :thumbsup:

How's it feel to have your very own smilie? :crazy: - you must be famous! :silly:

[Goldom]

11. I used to love hotbar

before I found out it was spyware.. I loved it for letting you put skins on IE windows. (yeah yeah get firefox i know). Too bad there is no clean version of it.

[Clintmax]

12. I LOVE the skins in Firefox!!! n/t

[merh]

13. I'm going with firefox!

I'm tired of the spyware. :argh:

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. You can just disable ActiveX controls in IE, if you don't want to switch.

You'll have to turn 'em back on to use the Windows Update site, though.

[merh]

15. Thanks, I'm still trying to figure out the best way to deal with

all of this. I'll consider your suggestion. :hi:

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. It will at least stop sites from installing software...

without your permission. That particular bit of IE-related nastiness is due to exploitation of the ActiveX functionality. (Personally, I use Mozilla 1.7, which I prefer, look-and-feel-wise, to Firefox.)

[merh]

18. I thought Mozilla was firefox

Just shows how much I know :shrug:

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. Different things...

Mozilla 1.7 is part of an application suite that includes web browser, email client, IRC client, HTML editor, etc., and Firefox is a standalone browser based on the Mozilla 1.x browser (very stripped-down in comparison, and it requires installation of a lot of plugins to have the same "out of the box" functionality).

[merh]

21. Oh, okay - so I need to go with Mozilla!

Thanks so much, you have been a big help. :pals:

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. Here's a download link for you...

http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

And once you've downlioaded, if you want to skin the browser, you should go here: http://themes.mozdev.org/ (the skin I use is Orbit Retro...very clean, grey, red & yellow...big improvement over the standard, IMO)

This is useful, too...banner-ad removal add-on: http://bannerblind.mozdev.org/

And THIS adds a home button to Mozilla (which it lacks by default): http://3rdhand.info/mozilla/home/

[merh]

23. Thank you so much!

I will give this a try. I sure appreciate all of the help! :hug:

[JimmyJazz]

16. OMG - I'm going through the same thing! It's insane.

These things are really aggressive :cry:

[merh]

19. I think it is sheer hell!

They do this just to drive us nutts! :freak:
:argh: