Windows 10: Ask Toolbar gets the banhammer on Windows

Its not over yet. Correction from original source link.

Jim *Cool

 

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

 

In other news Ask Toolbar has been rebranded and redistributed as You asked for it toolbar. They will try to figure a way around the block.

I can remember when my step daughter got her first laptop. It didn't take long before there were a dozen or more toolbars in IE. She just assumed you had to accept the extras to get program X. She would just blindly keep clicking next etc to get her program installed as quick as possible. These types of drive by's count on that. *Mad For most of us here, its just an inconvenience to watch out for it and uncheck the boxes.

 

For us here yes. For the not so tech savvy, not so much. Most of my can you fix Windows for me, its so slow, instances are because its full of search toolbars etc and other drive by downloads. I just go right to control panel and start uninstalling the gunk. If it will uninstall that is.

 

It's like trusting the "National Do Not Call" list. (ha-ha) You'll never​ stop them all.

 

Or how about.. any. But I think the best way is to use malware bytes and hope that you can catch or clear up any issues when they should pop up.,

 

Awwwww, crapware! *Sad

 

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

 

Thank goodness for malware bytes. *Wink

 

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.

 

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.

 

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. *Wink

 

It does work.. just not all of the time. Some of the junk does get in there really good and it takes work to get it out,

 

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.