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Overview

Summary

 SearchExplorerBar is an IE toolbar providing the usual search features.

Vendor Description

 "a FREE IE plugin that increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web and takes just a few seconds to install. Once installed, it automatically appears along with your Internet Explorer toolbar and also your search sidebar. This means you can quickly use your Search-Explorer Toolbar to search from any website location, without returning to our home page to begin another search. We also offer you our newest feature,"Xtreme Targeting", showing you the best online options for your search needs from a small, unintrusive sliding bar that appears on the right side of your screen."

Category

 Adware: Software that displays popup/popunder ads when the primary user interface is not visible or which do not appear to be assocaited with the product.

Search Hijacker:  Any software that resets your browser's settings to point to other sites when you perform a search. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower. Search results when such a hijacker is running will sometimes differ from non-hijacked results.

Toolbar:  A group of buttons which perform common tasks. A toolbar for Internet Explorer is nomally located below the menu bar at the top of the form. Toolbars may be created by Browser Helper Objects.

Variants

   Pugi.SearchExplorer ·  Search-Explorer ·

Reasons For Retention

 Changes browser settings other than homepage, without user permission.
 

Origins

 

Group

 Search-Explorer

Vendor

 Search-Explorer.Both Adpowerzoneand Guaranteed-Hitssell ads for SearchExplorer, under the name 'XTremeTargeting'.

Others By This Group

 Search-Explorer·

Date of Origin

 Variants from April, 2003 to January, 2004
 

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

 

Removable by opening the 'Downloaded Program Files'folder inside the Windows folder and removing the entrycorresponding to Search-Explorer. (To find where eachobject came from, right-click it and choose 'Properties'.)

Now comes with an uninstaller for Add/Remove Programs.


 Stop Running Processes:

Kill these running processes with Task Manager:



Unregister DLLs:

Unregister these DLLs with Regsvr32, then reboot:



Clean Registry:

Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:



Remove Files:

Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:



Remove Directories:

Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:



Restore Settings:

After following the instructions above, you will still need to restore your original settings and prevent this from happening again.
 
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