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Home › Tutorials - HowTo › How to remove HotBar

How to remove HotBar

Myantispyware team March 2, 2006     1 Comment    

Hotbar Web Tools is a collection of browser and system enhancements. The primary application is the Hotbar toolbar, a which is a “skinable” browser toolbar for Internet Explorer.

When a user installs the Hotbar toolbar, other utilities are also installed including AccuWeather, a local weather program; WOWPapers, a desktop wallpaper utility; Outlook Tools, a collection of enhancements for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express email programs and ShopperReports, an Internet Explorer advertising program that pops out a sidesearch bar with competitive offers.

The Hotbar Web Tools package installs software that displays at least three types of advertising: contextual pop-up advertising on the desktop based on the users web browsing, toolbar advertising and sidesearch bar advertising.

The Hotbar software may be installed at the vendor’s web site by a traditional download process or by an Active X process sometimes found in confusing circumstances such as banner ads and pop-ups at third party web sites including some kids sites.

Problems with Hotbar:

– reconfiguration of the user’s browser home page, search settings, or other user-selectable browser preferences.
– collection and transmission of data regarding user’s internet connection, viewing, and communication habits.
– difficulty in uninstllation due to badgering or tricking the user into not uninstalling the software.

Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and remove the HotBar.
After removing the program through the Add/Remove section, you’ll want to run Regedit and remove the following keys in the registry.

HKey_Current_User\Software\Hotbar
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Hotbar
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\B195B3B3-8A05-11D3-97A4-0004ACA6948E
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform\Hotbar 3.0

Also delete the ‘HotBar 3.0’ string from

HKey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent

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Author: Myantispyware team

Myantispyware is an information security website created in 2004. Our content is written in collaboration with Cyber Security specialists, IT experts, under the direction of Patrik Holder and Valeri Tchmych, founders of Myantispyware.com.

1 Comment

  1. carren
    ― August 6, 2008 - 4:17 am  Reply

    After a lot of thinking and after uninstalling at remove programms I started windows in safe mode and deleted the hotbars folder .I then went through all your steps just to prove everything had gone which ut had thank goodness

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