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by fiddle-de-de

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when I run spybot or adaware I find Hotbars. It is not removed when I remove all other spyware. How do I remove Hotbars from my computer?
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by w2ktechman

I beleive Hotbar can be uninstalled from add/remove programs. Ad-Aware just found and removed the problem files.

by oz_media

Hotbar removal tool is available from Hotbar. They changed their site so I couldn't find the page but his link will start the Hotbar removal tool download. Remove any spaces in the URL that magically appear.
http://hotbar.com/downloads/HBfullUnInst.exe

W2K technician is right, ADD.Remove programs will let you remove it. Also you can just right click your toolbar and deselect Hotbar (this leaves the files in your PC though).

by tcstombar

Most of the hotbar programs can be removed from the Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

If they can't, Adaware is a good second choice. It finds and removes most of the Spyware/ Malware programs. It's good.

If the program is still running, you have to identify what the actual program is with Con-Alt-Del. Once you know what the name of the program is, you can identify where it is being told to run in Msconfig. Try disabling it there. If that works, you should remove the Run command from the registry. Also try to remove any other remnants of this same program from the registry.

by jkaras

not to sound stupid or anything, but what is a hotbar? Many images float in my pee brain.

by mm_it

Have you tried TheChas' suggestion? The CW Shredder can remove CoolWebSearch and its variants...the tool is dedicated to search your system for the CWS and its variants. More info in http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html#cwshredder.

If it is not CWS, try Spy Sweeper by Webroot...the freeware works perfectly fine (try to dig through its settings...but the default should be ok). The only downside of the freeware is that you can only download its update once, you can subscribe if you want to download updates.

Hope I was of some help.

by senteza_michael

You may need try getting rid of it manually, this means that you will have to go the registry and through local machine , software, microsoft, windows, run , in addition you may also need do the same for user. and you have delete the coressponding entries. that should give you a prety good idea where to go on the harddisk to find the related files, then check with the internet tools file settings and objects

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