Please help, and thanks in advance. Cheeseball81 Retired Moderator. Joined Mar 3, Messages 84, Phantom Retired Trusted Advisor. Joined Mar 9, Messages 34, Run it and select Do a system scan and save a logfile from the Main Menu. The log will be saved in Notepad.
Copy and paste the log in your next reply. Cheeseball Revo did not work. Same message. Joined Aug 1, Messages 51, Are your browsers closed? The toolbar can't be removed if in use. If they are, try Toolbar Cop. Aren't you just removing a toolbar? Joined Nov 25, Messages 16, Trusted Advisor.
Joined May 12, Messages 84, Start HiJackThis, then click "Do a system scan only". Close HiJackThis, then restart the computer. This is a mere annoyance and not something that interferes with the use of my computer: I'm not seeing the Ask Toolbar anywhere except IE, which I am loathe to use.
While the Zemana application is checking, you can see how many objects it has identified as threat. Hitman Pro frees your PC from ad-supported software, PUPs, unwanted toolbars, web browser extensions and other undesired applications such as the Ask Toolbar.
The free removal tool will help you enjoy your computer to its fullest. HitmanPro uses advanced behavioral detection technologies to detect if there are undesired apps in your PC. You can review the scan results, and choose the items you want to delete. Once the downloading process is complete, open the file location and double-click the HitmanPro icon.
It will start the Hitman Pro tool. If the User Account Control dialog box will ask you want to open the application, click Yes button to continue. HitmanPro program will scan through the whole machine for the Ask Toolbar and other unwanted software. A scan can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the number of files on your computer and the speed of your machine. While the HitmanPro utility is checking, you may see count of objects it has identified as being affected by malware.
Once the scan get completed, Hitman Pro will create a list of undesired applications adware as on the image below. After that process is done, the tool may ask you to restart your PC system. We suggest using the Malwarebytes Free. You can download and install Malwarebytes to detect and delete Ask Toolbar from your system.
When installed and updated, the free malicious software remover will automatically scan and detect all threats present on the PC. After the downloading process is done, close all software and windows on your personal computer. Open a directory in which you saved it. Depending on your system, the scan can take anywhere from a few minutes to close to an hour.
While the MalwareBytes program is checking, you can see count of objects it has identified as threat. The Malwarebytes will now delete Ask Toolbar and add items to the Quarantine. When finished, you may be prompted to restart your PC system.
The following video explains steps on how to remove hijacker infection, ad supported software and other malicious software with MalwareBytes AntiMalware MBAM. What we usually do is install the updates for Java, and then double-check to make sure that the browser plugin is disabled.
After running through a security update for the latest Java this morning, there was a terrible accident. We accidentally installed the Ask Toolbar. To try and excuse our terrible mistake, you have to understand… during the install process, the Java updater completely disappears for a while, and then suddenly pops up with this awful dialog to install the terrible Ask Toolbar.
Make sure you never, ever, ever choose to install the Ask Toolbar. Somebody, somewhere should be punished. Imagine that you accidentally clicked Next without paying attention, and now Java has installed the Ask Toolbar.
You realize your giant mistake, and want to correct it by uninstalling the terrible Ask Toolbar, so you head to Control Panel.
Maybe you escaped certain doom after all! What did you do to deserve this punishment? To make matters even worse, heading to about:plugins shows something really scary — the Ask Toolbar installs a…. Why is a browser plugin mucking around in your registry? I mean, even Internet Explorer lets you click a single button to remove Ask Toolbar forever.
You know, because they wanted to make it easy for us. Does anybody actually use Ask. Why does Oracle, a giant company with huge profits, bundle the terrible Ask Toolbar with Java? Use Google Fonts in Word. Use FaceTime on Android Signal vs. It messes up the rest of the computer. I can not get rid of it after many tries. Says to close Chrome and it already is closed. I work on my computer and this is just a big headache for me and hinders my research and writing. This damn ask toolbar, I didnt even realise it was secretly installed : I cant think what software I downloaded that came with this junk attached, I hope it wasnt ccleaner lol.
Its only recently when my battery icon dissapeared from taskbar that I had to run services. There was an interview with the ceo or cio of ask.
The ask. One of the easier infection routes is the fake hyperlink adwords that has words that appear to be a hyper link but when hovering over it then a tiny ad appears thus disturbing what article you are trying to read.
Not sure if ask. While on the subject of toolbar removals, how to get about removing the YAC toolbar. I downloaded the toolbar inadvertently. Had trouble getting Ask off a Chromebook. Had tried other things but this worked:.
Uninstall apps Click the apps list icon in the launcher at the bottom of the screen. Find your app in the list and right-click click with two fingers on a Chromebook its icon. Select Remove from Chrome. Uninstall extensions Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar. Select Tools. Select Extensions. If your extension appears as a button on the browser toolbar, you can also right-click or click with two fingers on a Chromebook its icon and select Remove from Chrome.
Reset your browser settings In the top-right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu Or access settings by clicking on the time at the bottom, if you have closed out of all apps. Select Settings. At the bottom, click Show advanced settings. In the dialog that appears, click Reset. If you have been using your Chrome settings on a number of devices you may also need to do this to stop the Syncing option from importing your Ask settings from other.
Stopping sync on the Chromebook, 1. Go to Settings. Then reset the browser settings again. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers. Search for:.
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Comments hlm said on March 4, at am. Martin said on March 4, at pm. Sure I can do that, even though the uninstallation itself is pretty similar in all regards. Shawn said on August 18, at am. Sylvia said on February 16, at am. Many Thanks! Martin Brinkmann said on February 25, at pm. Mightee said on March 4, at pm. Anonymous said on April 13, at am. Erwin Lerner said on August 9, at pm. Jackie said on September 29, at am. Thank you very much…the ask toolbar has been driving me crazy…gone now!
Knight said on November 4, at am. Lou said on February 18, at pm. Anonymous said on November 7, at pm. A troubled Windows 7 user said on November 30, at pm.
Thank you sooooo much!! Jim Dougherty said on January 2, at pm. Thank You. Jim Brown said on February 8, at pm. Jim said on March 7, at pm. Lou said on March 7, at pm. Lon said on February 21, at pm. Yes…I agree…it will not show the delete button in chrome. Carol said on March 24, at am. WebHybrid said on April 17, at pm. I have used the Control Panel uninstall and had pieces of the Ask toolbar remain.
Lou said on April 18, at pm. WebHybrid said on April 18, at pm. Gladys Byrne said on April 18, at pm. Dan said on May 23, at pm. SFer said on June 11, at pm. Fragbert said on June 20, at pm. Lou said on June 20, at pm. BubbaTech said on July 7, at am. Steve said on July 18, at pm. Pete said on July 24, at pm.
Hope this helps someone. Lou said on September 1, at pm.
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