Ask Toolbar gets the banhammer on Windows

Phone Man said:

Its not over yet. Correction from original source link.



Jim

Awwwww, crapware!

Edwin said:

Who uses toolbars anyway?
I thought toolbars were more surfing 'social butterflies' and, more or less, a thing of the past.

I don't. The stupid things just sit there taking up valuable real estate.

BunnyJ said:

Thank goodness for malware bytes.

Yes, sort of. Sometimes it doesn't always work, but later on, it may . . . First try didn't work on sear.ch, but later on, MB took the rest of it out.

BunnyJ said:

True.. but it's something.. I hate this stuff.. but you just have to be very careful what you download and where you get anything from today.

You be preaching to da choir, Jeff! I still haven't a clue as to how that thing got on Windows 8.1, but it's gone now.

Damn those PUPs. Most of the comps I get to fix are loaded with the sods. MindSpark - aaaarrrrggghhh!!!

Can get 5-600 entries detected by MBAM.

Pays to run ADWCleaner as well. It can get a few missed by MBAM.

It really is a depressing side to computing.

Chuck38 said:

I've never been able to get programs like Malawarebytes to work for me. It never gets everything out. I tend to just dig into the system and clean it out myself.

I just re-install the OS! Been doing it every day lately, sometimes twice a day!