Re: Internet Explorer and unwanted Toolbar (Windows 2000)

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If you go here - http://www.searchweb2.com/ - and click on Help at the bottom, you'll see this mess is powered by Lop.com. See this site for possible specific removal: http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/lop.htm

If no joy.....

Use Ad-Aware, MSAS and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to remove it.

Microsoft Anti-Spyware (beta) http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up anything found breaks it -

Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows- http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip

More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot.html
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ - runs a little script when loading page to
check for common parasites

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot.  If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem.  You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.

Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256

If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet.  In that case....
HijackThis direct download:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html

Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

An alternate resource for all of this and more:
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm

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Jon R. Kennedy
Charlotte, NC, USA
jkennedy2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Bill Partridge" <BillPartridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0D541E65-AFA6-4CE8-BC86-8ACC1C51F1D6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Everytime I run IE6 I get what appears to be a toolbar appear at the bottom
of my screen with various internet search options; dating,creatid,travel,
computers etc. The website running this is
http://searchweb2.com/passthrough/newpass2.html


I have added this address to my garbage can in Internet Security, I have run
adware scan but it returns every time I run IE6, it is driving me crazy.
There are no buttons on what appears to be a toolbar. It remains on the
screen even when I close IE6, the only way to remove it is to log off and log
on to the computer again.

I have disabled the "Enable third party browser extensions" settings in
Internet advanced settings.

Can anybody help a very frustrated user?


Thanks

Bill Partridge 

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