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December 21st, 2003 19:00

Mirar Toolbar

I appear to have downloaded the dreaded Mirar Toolbar.  Ad aware and spybot do not seem to be able to remove it.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance......!!

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December 21st, 2003 19:00

Use these to remove Malware (Spyware and Adware). As you have tried spybot, move on to the hijackthis instructions below.

1) SpyBot Search and Destroy
After installing SpyBot Search & Destroy, first press Online, and search for, put a check mark at, and install all updates.
Next, close all Internet Explorer windows, hit 'Check for Problems', and have SpyBot remove all it finds.

2) Get Ad-Aware
After installing Ad-Aware, and before running the program, first press “check for updates now".
Click "Connect" and install all updated components available. Click 'Finish'.
Press "Scan Now", then 'next', and let Ad-Aware scan your drives.
It will find a number of "bad" files and registry keys. Click 'Next' again.
Check all found items, and click 'next' once more.
It will ask you whether you'd like to remove all checked items. Click OK.



 

Always reboot the computer between each program - both of these may find things that they need to have a reboot of the machine to clear - please reboot and let them finish .

Failing those solving your problems a post of a hijackthis log for the experts to advise.
HijackThis From Here
Download, run, scan, save log, then in notepad copy the FULL log by copy and paste to a post in one of these specialist spyware removal forums:-

You should post your log as a reply to this post and an expert with HijackThis Knowldge, will have a go at giving advice. Please note the list of experts names below, very few forum regulars here have had this training.

DO NOT FIX ANYTHING WITH HIJACKTHIS WITHOUT EXPERT ADVICE
, most of what it finds you need for normal MS Windows tasks.

Known Spyware HijackThis fighters in DellTalk - If you are, and are not on the list please PM Me.
ChrisRLG
therock247uk
TomCoyote (of http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php fame above)
irelynmisses
YoKenny
baskar1234



 

You could also go to one of the more specalist forums where more experts will be able to help.
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi
http://boards.cexx.org/index.php
Do read the sites FAQ before posting, and advise your problem and what steps you have already done to try to cure your problem.

I, and the other hijack experts mentioned above, are in all those sites (and more) with the same login names. You might get one of us at those sites also to anwser your log, but other experts will also be available.

174 Posts

December 22nd, 2003 01:00

THANKS....the second application of Ad Aware removed it....SpyBot did not, even after three applications..........

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December 22nd, 2003 14:00

Did you check for updates with Spybot? Mirar.NN Bar is in is data base.

174 Posts

December 22nd, 2003 15:00

Thanks for writing.  yes, I did have the latest SpyBot......but I understand there are 3 variants of this evil file.  I would guess that all the variants are not in the SpyBot database, and that I had one of those.  anyway, it is gone, thanks to Adware......

3.9K Posts

December 22nd, 2003 18:00

You might still like to post a hijackthis log - to check that all is clear, some stuff may be left. Instuctions in my last post. Post as a reply here.
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