Remove Ask Toolbar, Uninstall Unwanted Toolbar from Browsers

Ask toolbar is a free browser add-on or extension developed at Ask.com, a website which initially provides a question answering-focused web search engine to enrich Internet user’s online experience. The Ask toolbar is promoted to allow Internet users to search the web using the search engine of Ask.com directly from the browser. It can be easy to tell that Ask toolbar is a standard browser add-on which can be used by Internet users. However, numerous users attempt to uninstall Ask toolbar according to its annoying traits. To be specific, the Ask toolbar can be secretly bundled in with some legitimate program installations such as Java Download. Computer users generally have the options to “Allow” Or “Reject” the installation of additional Ask toolbar. Nonetheless, when Internet users need to uninstall Ask toolbar from computer, they may have a failure out of expectation.

Meanwhile, though Ask toolbar is not a virus actually, it may be attacked and utilized cyber criminals who aim to make trouble on compromised machine and then gain from victims. In this case, the infected Ask toolbar can be recognized as a dangerous threat for users, which must be removed from computer for good. Basically, the infected Ask toolbar may generate web traffic on user’s browser, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. By exploiting system vulnerabilities, the Ask toolbar may drop and install additional threats onto compromised machine, which may contain browser hijack virus, Trojan, worm, rogue or other potential threats. Hence, if you suspect that the Ask toolbar has been infected and could make damages on your computer, you may consider removing Ask toolbar for good.

Tips: If you haven’t sufficient PC expertise and don’t want to make things worse, to remove the Ask Toolbar safely and permanently, contact VilmaTech PC Experts Online here promptly.

How to Uninstall Ask Toolbar

Method one: Add / Remove Program

• Find the “start” button on the lower left corner of your monitor, and then click it.
• Find and double click the button “Control Panel”.
• Find “Add / Remove Program” icon in the control panel, and then double click it.
• When the windows pop up, find Ask toolbar icon in the list, and then select it to start uninstalling it from your computer by clicking “Remove”.
• When it is finished, reboot your computer to take effect.

*Tips: Sometimes you cannot find one certain file in Add/Remove Programs, thus you can try this trick as below:

• Firstly, you need to open the hard disk at \winnt\inf\sysoc.inf
• Find sysoc.inf in it, and the make a copy of it. If you afraid mistake, you should store the early arrangement first. Thus, store the copy and give the copy a different name, such as sysoc2.inf.
• Then open the file sysoc.inf. Each line of text in the file represents an item that can be displayed in the Add/Remove Windows Items dialogue.
• Delete the word HIDE for any item that you want to see in the dialogue, and do not erase the commas.
• After that, save the Sysoc.inf file, then close it, and reboot your computer.
• Then the Add/Remove Windows Items dialogue will now display the items you want.
• Repeat the Delete step as above, find Ask toolbar, and click Remove to delete it.
• Then you can reboot your computer, all steps are finished.

Remove Ask Toolbar from Browsers

Google Chrome:

a. Click on Chrome menu button. Go to Tools > Extensions.
b. Click on the trashcan icon and remove the extensions that might be causing Ask toolbar.

Mozilla Firefox:

a. Go to Tools >Add-ons.
b. Select Extensions. Remove all extensions that related to Ask toolbar.

Internet Explorer:

a. Go to Tools > Manage Add-ons. If you have the latest version, simply click on the Settings button.
b. Select Toolbars and Extensions. Remove the add-on related to Ask toolbar.

Remove Registry Files of Ask Toolbar

1. The associated files to be removed in folders on Local Disk (note: new files are still created each month so far):

%AllUsersProfile% random.exe
%Temp% random.exe

2. Open your Registry Editor and then find out the registry entries of Ask toolbar to remove them (note: new registry entries are still made every month so far):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”

Certain expert skills will be required during the manual removal procedure to avoid wrong operation which may damage your computer permanently. If you cannot remove Ask Toolbar completely by yourself, you’re welcome to Contact VilmaTech 24/7 Online Computer Experts here to help you quickly and safely remove all possible infections from your computer.