Remove ALOT Toolbar, How to Uninstall Toolbar from Browsers

Information of ALOT Toolbar

ALOT toolbar is a web browser extension developed at alot.com, which is promoted to enrich Internet user’s online surfing experience. The official ALOT team is identified as a place where you can discover and download free apps for your computer. The ALOT toolbar belongs to A LOT apps is small software that can sit in user’s web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome) which can help users to keep in touch with their favorite contents. It can be easy to tell that the ALOT toolbar is a normal web browser app for Internet users. However, according to the feedback of some users, the ALOT toolbar may be installed and executed on their computers without any permission, and even generate web traffic on users’ browser forcibly. Well, though the ALOT toolbar is not a virus at all, it may be attacked and utilized by cyber crooks as a hack tool for illegal purpose.

In this case, the ALOT toolbar can be recognized as a PUP (potentially unwanted program) for computer users. When the attacked ALOT toolbar is installed on your computer, it may slow down the Internet speed significantly by inserting numerous negative codes and registry files on system. Thereupon some default web browser settings like DNS or web search provider could be modified forcibly. As a result, when Internet users open a new link or tab on their browser, unknown web pages may pop up automatically. What’s worse, the ALOT toolbar utilized by scammers may even trace and record user’s online search cookies and reveal victim’s confidential data to third party. Hence, if you suspect that the ALOT toolbar installed on your computer has been attacked by hackers and remains risks, you can uninstall ALOT toolbar from computer to avoid unexpected damage.

Tips: Please be aware that you need to be very prudent during the whole removal process, because any inaccurate operation may result in data loss or even system crash. If you are confused how to do the above steps, you just need click here and get help from VilmaTech 24/7 Online Computer Experts to remove ALOT toolbar completely.

Manually Remove ALOT Toolbar

Method one: Add or Remove Programs

1. Go to the “Start Menu” on the bottom left of your computer’s screen.
2. Locate and click on “Control Panel”.
3. Find the “Add or Remove Programs” icon and double-click it.

4. Here you’ll see a whole list of programs & applications that are installed on your computer. Find and select ALOT Toolbar and click “Uninstall”.
5. Confirm that you want to uninstall the program by clicking on “Remove” to uninstall ALOT Toolbar.
6. When it is done, you can reboot your computer to take effect.

Method two: Another Manual Removal

If you cannot remove ALOT toolbar from computer with the aid of “Add or Remove Programs”, you can try the following steps:

*Internet Explorer

1. Open the "Start" menu by clicking on the "Start" button from the taskbar.
2. Click on "Run" and type "appwiz.cpl" at the command prompt.
3. Look for “ALOT Toolbar " in the list of programs that appears. Click on it to select it and click on the "remove" button. Confirm that you want to uninstall it if asked.
4. Reboot the computer to take effect.

*Mozilla Firefox

1. Open the Firefox browser firstly.
2. Open the "Tools" menu from the top of the browser window and then select "Add-Ons".
3. When the prompt comes out, choose the ALOT Toolbar and click "uninstall" to remove it from Firefox.
4. Reboot the computer to take effect.

Remove Registry Files of ALOT Toolbar

1. Delete files that ALOT Toolbar has added to your system folders and files:

%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe

2. Remove registry entries that ALOT Toolbar has created to your system registry editor: (Note: Back up the Windows registry before editing it, so that you can quickly restore it later if any wrong operation.)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Attention:

1.    Please don’t download or open files from sources that you don't trust.
2.    Don’t visit websites that you don't trust.
3.    Don’t open email attachments from contacts that you don’t trust.

Since some files might be hidden or changed, so you should realize that manual removal of ALOT toolbar is a cumbersome procedure and does not ensure complete deletion of the malware. Besides, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. So we strongly recommend you get help from VilmaTech online agents who will save your time and guarantee the needed result.