How do I remove a Crawler Toolbar from Firefox please?

lubo_moravcik

For some reason I have something called a 'crawler toolbar' in firefox. Rather than doing a normal search of what I want it goes arseways about it.
Anyone know how I get rid of it? When i typed this question into google it's saying "click on the crawler icon", what and where is this icon?


Thank you please


ps, I don't know if this should be in here or should it be in the 'virus and malware thread????

yoyo

lubo_moravcik wrote: »

For some reason I have something called a 'crawler toolbar' in firefox. Rather than doing a normal search of what I want it goes arseways about it.
Anyone know how I get rid of it? When i typed this question into google it's saying "click on the crawler icon", what and where is this icon?


Thank you please


ps, I don't know if this should be in here or should it be in the 'virus and malware thread????

Click the firefox button>Addons and under extensions look for crawler toolbar and remove or if not possible disable.

Nick

lubo_moravcik

yoyo wrote: »

Click the firefox button>Addons and under extensions look for crawler toolbar and remove or if not possible disable.

Nick

Thanks Nick, though when i go into 'extensions' I don't see it there. The ones in there I don't recognise are
Tweak Network 1.5.4
Personal Menu 5.0.7
URL Fixer 4.0.1

The other I know are
adblock plus
utorrent community toolbar
stumble upon
ant video downloader

yoyo

lubo_moravcik wrote: »

Thanks Nick, though when i go into 'extensions' I don't see it there. The ones in there I don't recognise are
Tweak Network 1.5.4
Personal Menu 5.0.7
URL Fixer 4.0.1

The other I know are
adblock plus
utorrent community toolbar
stumble upon
ant video downloader

Disable the uTorrent toolbar and see what happens, thats probably it

Nick

mp22

Control panel-uninstall a program-look for it in the list.

lubo_moravcik

yoyo wrote: »

Disable the uTorrent toolbar and see what happens, thats probably it

Nick

Done that and it's still there

mp22 wrote: »

Control panel-uninstall a program-look for it in the list.

It's not in the list mate, tried that route before coming on.

yoyo

Hold down the Shift key while starting firefox, load into Firefox safe mode, does the toolbar appear?

Nick

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http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic121940.html

lubo_moravcik

yoyo wrote: »

Hold down the Shift key while starting firefox, load into Firefox safe mode, does the toolbar appear?

Nick

Can I just ask before I go any further on it here. I pressed Shift while starting Firefox, do I check any of the boxes (ie, reset toolbars and controls) or click on 'continue in safe mode'???


Thanks by the way

yoyo

lubo_moravcik wrote: »

Can I just ask before I go any further on it here. I pressed Shift while starting Firefox, do I check any of the boxes (ie, reset toolbars and controls) or click on 'continue in safe mode'???


Thanks by the way

Just continue in safe mode will suffice, see if it still displays

Nick

lubo_moravcik

yoyo wrote: »

Just continue in safe mode will suffice, see if it still displays

Nick

Yeah still there. The only place i see it is in the search bar up the top ^^^^^ I type in whatever am looking for, when i click enter it goes to fkn crawler. it's no big issue really, but it's annoying as hell

yoyo

lubo_moravcik wrote: »

Yeah still there. The only place i see it is in the search bar up the top ^^^^^ I type in whatever am looking for, when i click enter it goes to fkn crawler. it's no big issue really, but it's annoying as hell

Ahh its not a toolbar, just a default search engine, click the left crwler icon>Manage Search Engines and you can click on crawler and remove it from there

Nick

lubo_moravcik

yoyo wrote: »

Ahh its not a toolbar, just a default search engine, click the left crwler icon>Manage Search Engines and you can click on crawler and remove it from there

Nick

Cheers mate, but where is the crawler icon??? I've not used firefox in weeks because of this, pure ripping my knitting

ASJ112

we can remove it easily enough with this

Download OTL to your Desktop

• Double click on the icon to run it. Make sure all other windows are closed and to let it run uninterrupted.
• Click the Quick Scan button. Do not change any settings. The scan wont take long.
• When the scan completes, it will open two notepad windows. OTL.Txt and Extras.Txt. These are saved in the same location as OTL.
• Please copy (Edit->Select All, Edit->Copy) the contents of these files here