Hey guys-
Yesterday, I reformatted my hard drive to improve my computer's performance, since there was four years worth of crap built up on there. One problem, though: I bought my computer in early 2002, pre-Service Pack 1 or 2. Everything was fine until I went on the Internet to download the service packs, and inadvertently picked up about 30 spyware programs. I have Spybot Search & Destroy, and I just downloaded Ad-Aware. They seemed to have cleaned up most of the problems, except for one: a pretty much evil search toolbar.
It looks like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../searchbar.jpg
And yes, it does say "Remove This Toolbar." But, when you click on the button, it leads you to any one of a variety of anti-adware sites where you have to purchase a product (not the same product, mind you, a different product each time you click) to remove it.
In the menu, when you go to "View-->Toolbars", the options are greyed out. You can't hide the thing. The toolbar is listed as "SearchToolbar". I tried actually searching with it to see if I could find an uninstall tool on the Search website, but it led me not to one place but a bunch of places, one of them
http://www.easy-find.info, whose homepage is a forbidden directory.
It's a very ugly toolbar, and I would very much like to get rid of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Josh
(P.S. Also, when I press "Tab" in order to move through text fields quickly, like the registration form on this forum, it doesn't work. Nothing happens. Any help with that?)
