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| Thread ID: 36687 | 2003-08-17 23:01:00 | Hotbar - darn software! Need help. | nzStan (440) | Press F1 |
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| 168230 | 2003-08-17 23:01:00 | Am helping a friend of a friend. Unfortunately I can only do this during my lunch break. Last week, had a quick look at her PC. Win2K pro with Office2K, Norton System Works - ie antivirus but not firewall. She thought she had the Blaster worm because her PC keeps generating GPF errors. She is on dialup btw. I had a quick look and msblaster.exe is not active. But explorer is running at 30% all the time. Brought up explorer and it had a "Hotbar" toolbar on with the message "Installing now...." I tried to uninstall hotbar from Control panel, but the Add/Remove program is screwed (blank screen). So I hop on the internet and found a utility to manually uninstall hotbar. Did that and the Hotbar toolbar is gone. But the GPF is still happening. The good news is the Add/Remove screen works now. The bad news is when I rebooted the PC, the Add/Remove screen is screwed again (blank screen). Anyone has experience with Hotbar? What do I need to know about this piece of ad/spyware before I make another lunch time trip this week? Or could it be something else is locking the Add/Remove function (a virus?). I will be installing ZoneAlarm on her PC to give her some firewall protection. |
nzStan (440) | ||
| 168231 | 2003-08-17 23:08:00 | You may need to run Adawre & Spybot, but you can kill Hotbar quickly by searching for and deleting hotbar.exe. I did that the first time it invaded, and that stopped it in its tracks, but next time I used Adaware to ensure all details were removed. From the symptoms though I don't think that this is responsible for all of the problems. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 168232 | 2003-08-17 23:08:00 | I think Spybot S&D will get rid of it. | KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 168233 | 2003-08-18 01:39:00 | Try the Hijack This utility mentioned in this thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz). It should fix it nicely. | Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
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