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mshirley001
03-17-2004, 12:56 PM
Something, somewhere, somehow has installed a toolbar called "Tray32" in internet explorer. I do not want it there and cannot get rid of this pesky thing. I goto view/toolbars and uncheck it but it keeps coming back.

How can I remove this thing completely?

I have ran ad-aware and it didnt get it.

glc
03-17-2004, 07:49 PM
Have you tried running a virus scanner?

mshirley001
03-18-2004, 09:35 AM
I ran a free online one... AVG I think it was and it did find something in one of the games that came with windows/this computer (2 files infected) but i thought it had corrected it. I didnt run it again to make sure it was fixed though.

ghost2003
03-18-2004, 09:43 AM
First, get a real AV
www.grisoft.com
www.avast.com

And get spyware scaners
www.safer-networking.org
www.lavasoftusa.com

mshirley001
03-19-2004, 01:12 PM
Well, I did as suggested: downloaded and ran AVG Anti-Virus and Spybot S&D...

I had a virus called "Nachi.b" which it got rid of and Spybot dug up all kinds of crap... It too was removed.

The toolbar was still there though. I did manage to get rid of the thing by doing a search of the registry and deleting the matching entry.
:D

Thanks all!