Remove Search Assistant from Taskbar

The following was from MAUWTH. I have the same problem. I have run Ad-ware, Spybot and PestPatrol and it still shows up on my taskbar. See attached HijackThis log file.

Thanks

"Since yesterday at startup I have a toolbar with a textbox and search button on my taskbar that's named "Search Assistant". Right-clicking it let's you choose between "Blazefind", "Google", "MSN" and "Yahoo". If you enter something and press "Search", IE opens the search engine you chose before. I didn't put this toolbar there, I don't need it, it ****s up my taskbar and I don't know where it came from. I tried to deactivate it, but every time I restart my computer it's there again."

 

Hi gnikoli,

Check the items listed below in HijackThis, close all windows except HijackThis and click Fix checked:

F2 - REG:system.ini: UserInit=C:\Windows\System32\wsaupdater.exe,

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Windows SA] C:\Program Files\WindowsSA\omniscient.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [P2P Networking] C:\WINDOWS\System32\P2P Networking\P2P Networking.exe /AUTOSTART

O16 - DPF: {1D6711C8-7154-40BB-8380-3DEA45B69CBF} -

Then reboot into safe mode and delete:
C:\Program Files\WindowsSA <= entire folder
C:\Windows\System32\wsaupdater.exe

Uninstall P2P Networking in Add/Remove Software.

I have no idea what this is:
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [VVLauncher] C:\Program Files\VVLauncher\VVLauncher.exe
so I left it alone. Do you know?

Regards,

Pieter

 

Thanks, I'll give it a try. VVLauncher is file sync software, ViceVersa.

 

Cool. Thanks for the info.

And keep us posted on your progress.

Regards,

Pieter

 

Thanks Pieter, that took care of it.

Regards,

George

 

Excellent job.

Please read: Why did I get infected in the first place

Regards,

Pieter