Bizzare Bar

[Graham.J]

Somehow - I'm not entirely sure - this program has managed to burrow itself into my IE so everytime I start it, this little thing pops up at the bottom.

I've done numerous virus/adware scans and it's not managed to get rid of the damned thing. I've checked all my registry files and the start up files along with all the 'add-ons' for IE and it's nowhere to be found.

Does anyone know how to get rid of the bl**dy thing because it irritates the out of me?

>>> Edited by Graham.J on Monday 18th April 05:18

[fazz81]

Not sure what it is, but got a couple of suggestions...

1. Run msconfig (from the run command) and check the startup and services tab.

2. Check the taskmanager and try to locate what the task name is (i.e open taskmanager, load IE, see what new taks appear, apart from iexplorer). Then do a search on your computer for that name, and delete the offending file.

Might work, might not, worth a go though...

[omitchell]

that looks like a lop infection, you'll need to get spybot search and destroy to fix it, if you search on google there are a lot of websites to help

[_Dobbo_]

Make sure you check the "add remove programs" thing in the control panel - quite often these dodgy bar things do have a remove option.

Then after that run spybot etc to clean up after it.

[Graham.J]

fazz81 said:

1. Run msconfig (from the run command) and check the startup and services tab. 2. Check the taskmanager and try to locate what the task name is (i.e open taskmanager, load IE, see what new taks appear, apart from iexplorer). Then do a search on your computer for that name, and delete the offending file.

Good idea, I didn't think of the taskmanager thing, I tried it but only explorer appeared. I ran MSConfig and regedit last night and found nothing.

omitchell said:

that looks like a lop infection, you'll need to get spybot search and destroy to fix it, if you search on google there are a lot of websites to help

Thanks, I'll have a search for that

_Dobbo_ said:

Make sure you check the "add remove programs" thing in the control panel - quite often these dodgy bar things do have a remove option.

Yup, I was going through that last night to uninstall IE but couldn't find anything of either.

[Graham.J]

I've just run spybot S&D, it found nearly 200 items, got rid of them all and the little bar has still not vanished. It seems like my IE on startup, goes to a website very briefly, which loads up the bar, then it goes to PH which is my homepage - the address bar in the bottom shows an odd page loading before PH does.

[simpo two]

Graham.J said:

then it goes to PH which is my homepage - the address bar in the bottom shows an odd page loading before PH does.

That may be Ted's cookie site - I've noticed that too (see website feedback forum)

[ichikitsune]

I got that, think it was down to a piece of Gator spyware that I didn't know I was installing. Took a rebuild to get rid of it.

[Graham.J]

The url of the bar I'm getting is..

http://mysearchnow.com/passthrough/newpass2.html

I can't find this thing anywhere.

[Graham.J]

simpo two said:

That may be Ted's cookie site - I've noticed that too (see website feedback forum)

I think you might be right, I blocked that url from IE and it blocked PH too

[Annodomini2]

Is that the new Ms toolbar you get with messenger 7?

[Graham.J]

No, this has been happening since I was using MSN 6.

[d-man]

You didn't install MSN plus did you? There is a tickbox on that that everyone misses the first time they install it and it does something very similar. Uninstalling it also removes the malware iirc.

[trevorw]

Graham.J said:

The url of the bar I'm getting is.. http://mysearchnow.com/passthrough/newpass2.html I can't find this thing anywhere.

Went to the site above and found this on their pages

http://66.220.17.157/help.html hope it helps to get rid.