Re: locked toolbar

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 03/29/04

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    Greetings --

        To deal with issues caused by any sort of "adware" and/or
    "spyware,"such as Gator, Comet Cursors, Smiley Central, Xupiter,
    Bonzai Buddy, or KaZaA, and their remnants, that you've deliberately
    (but without understanding the consequences) installed, two products
    that are quite effective (at finding and removing this type of
    scumware) are Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.de and SpyBot Search &
    Destroy from www.safer-networking.org/. Both have free versions.
    It's even possible to use SpyBot Search & Destroy to "immunize" your
    system against most future intrusions. I use both and generally
    perform manual scans every week or so to clean out cookies, etc.

        Additionally, manual removal instructions for the most common
    varieties of scumware are available here:

    PC Hell Spyware and Adware Removal Help
    http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml

    Bruce Chambers 

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"Darklump" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:7CAA3CE8-3C0D-4208-A499-FB6383BC33B9@microsoft.com...
>I let a friend use my computer, and afterwards i had a new toolbar on 
>IE6.  It is "ISEARCH."  It doesn't appear harmful or anything, but I 
>cant get rid of it.   Under the view menu - "toolbars," the options 
>are all grayed out.  I can not deselect the "ISEARCH" toolbar or any 
>of the others.  "Help" tells me that there should be an option to 
>lock/unlock toolbars, but I can not locate it.  Anyone run up against 
>this before?  Anyone know how I can get control back?
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