TonyD

adawre doesn't see it and spybot s&d cant get rid of it.
there is no huntbar.com/

so anyone know what this is and how do i remove it.

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Kyle McKnight

Just google "huntbar" and you'll have your answer


(here ya go)

Kyle McKnight

TonyD

i tried that.
but every link that has a removal function on the web site doesnt link to an active website.

the last thing i want to do is go into the reg to remove anything.

My "B" button rarely works.
My measley attempt at a Blog--> What Did He Say?
Movies watched 2008 Watching a Mits 73831 DLP Arnold is here

John Watson

Why are so many of these "protection" programs so useless?

I think Jack Bauer should be sent to take care of Huntbar, Searchtheweb.com, etc

Michael Harris

If you are using XP you may want to go to a restore point before Huntbar appeared. That's what I had to do in order to get rid the nasty that hijacked my homepage.

DaveGTP

I had luck with Spysweeper getting some stuff that Spybot and Adaware missed. If this is one of those toolbar type programs, you might also have luck this way:

Try going to Tools, Internet Options, under Temporary files go to Settings, View Objects. You'll see stuff like Quicktime, Shockwave, etc. Delete whatever you don't recognize. Some of the crappy searchbar programs install here as plug-ins. I've had luck getting rid of some plugins that way (although the files are still lurking on the PC somewhere, but at least the plugin isn't active!).

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TonyD

Quote:

If you are using XP you may want to go to a restore point before Huntbar appeared. That's what I had to do in order to get rid the nasty that hijacked my homepage.

too late for that, been there awhile.

My "B" button rarely works.
My measley attempt at a Blog--> What Did He Say?
Movies watched 2008 Watching a Mits 73831 DLP Arnold is here

Greg*go

Have you tried using cwshredder? If this huntbar takes over your homepage, that niffty little program should do the job. Luckily, I've never experienced this huntbar, so I have no idea what it is. The most updated version I see is here at majorgeeks.com

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JohanD

I recently (about a week ago) ran into this same problem.

What I ended up doing was taking the hard drive out of the infected PC, and put it as the slave drive (IE don't boot from the infected drive) on a second PC. Ran ad-aware/mcafee on the infected drive and it cleaned right up. It is very difficult to remove files that insist on being run.

Then when you boot up, the files will be gone and you will need to run ad-aware one more time to clean up the registry.

Best way to do it if you have access to another PC.