Remove Babylon Toolbar, Uninstall Babylon Search from Computer

Babylon toolbar messes up your browser? Is your homepage stuck with www.babylon.com that you cannot get rid of? Is your computer infected with Babylon toolbar virus? This step-by-step guide can help you safely and quickly remove Babylon toolbar effectively.

What is Babylon toolbar?

Babylon toolbar is an add-on or extension produced by Babylon Ltd., which has been widely recognized as a browser hijack virus primarily generating problems on common-used browsers. This may include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. In reality, the Babylon toolbar is generally integrated with Babylon’s translation software as a auxiliary mean. Anyhow the Babylon toolbar is often bundled as a pugin or add-on with other software downloads. Once being installed onto compromised machine, it may modify the default homepage or start-up page to its related websites such as www.babylon.com, through altering web browser configuration including DNS settings and web search provider.

Meanwhile, other unknown pop-up or ads may occupy victim’s browser out of control. Anyhow, this is not the worse result Babylon toolbar could bring. By inserting its malign codes in kernel system, it would excavate system vulnerabilities to drop and install additional threats onto compromised machine. It may contain Trojan, worm, keyloggers and even ransomware. If this is the case, the Babylon toolbar may follow and trace user’s online history and reveal confidential data to third party. To avoid unwanted damage or loss, it is necessary to remove Babylon toolbar from computer.

How to recognize Babylon toolbar

• Babylon toolbar is installed without your permission.
• Babylon toolbar reputation online is terrible.
• The official website of Babylon toolbar is poorly built and lacks basic information.
• The payments website of Babylon toolbar is suspicious.
• Performance of the program is poor.

Remove Babylon toolbar from computer

Method one: Add / Remove Program

1. Click on the "Start Menu" and find and click on "Control Panel".
2. When you are in the "Control Panel", find the "Add / Remove Programs" tab and click on it.
3. Now you'll see a huge list with programs, applications and software programs. Now you've got to find the Babylon toolbar and select it.
4. Once you've found it, hit the uninstall button and confirm that you want to uninstall the program.
5. Now the uninstall process will start.
6. When it is done, restart your PC.

Method two: Remove Babylon from browsers

*Internet Explorer

• Open the "Start" menu by clicking on the "Start" button from the taskbar.
• Click on "Run" and type "appwiz.cpl" at the command prompt.
• Look for " Babylon 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.
• Reboot the computer to take effect.

*Mozilla Firefox

• Open the Firefox browser firstly.
• Open the "Tools" menu from the top of the browser window and then select "Add-Ons".
• When the prompt comes out, choose the Babylon toolbar and click "uninstall" to remove it from Firefox.
• Reboot the computer to take effect.

Remove registry files of Babylon 

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\Babylon.DLL
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\Babylon.EXE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\”Shell” = “[random].exe”

Remove files stored on hard drive:

%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\*.lnk

NOTE:
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.

Manual removal of files and registry entries is very effective to get rid of this annoying threat Babylon virus. Anyhow, it requires skills and experience, if any wrong operation or even any deviation from the instructions during the manual removal could result in irreparable system damage. To make sure complete deletion, it is recommended to contact VilmaTech online expert for tech support.