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Remove I-Lookup Spyware
About I-Lookup
I-Lookup is a homepage hijacking program that change the IE homepage and search pages resulting in many pop-up ads. It will also add bookmarks to the Favorites menu in IE and in most cases a toolbar as well. It is run by a company called Aztec Marketing SA in San Jose, Costa Rica. I-Lookup also may set the homepage to globalwebsearch.com in some versions.
How to Remove I-Lookup?
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I-Lookup.com has its own uninstaller on its site buried in a FAQ. Click on the link below to download and run the I-Lookup.com uninstaller.
http://www.i-lookup.com/uninstall.exe
If you have installed the latest version, use the following link instead:
http://www.i-lookup.com/uninstall2.exe
If the automatic removal program used by the creators of the software doesn't work, the best way to remove it is to use some spyware removal software, among them we would greatly recommend the shareware program Pest Patrol.
How to manually remove I-Lookup
1) Open the 'Downloaded Program Files' folder in the Windows folder. Right-click the object called 'I-Lookup.com Bar' (Ineb and Abeb variants), 'GlobalWebSearch.com Bar' (Gws and Chgrgs variants), 'SearchBus.com Bar' (Sbus variant), 'GlobalToolbar.com Bar' (Drbr variant) or 'Search Bar' (Bmeb variant). Click 'Remove'.
2) Next, open a DOS command prompt window (Click Start->Run, type COMMAND(for windows 95/98/Me) or CMD(for NT/2000/XP)) and enter the following commands to unregister related DLL files.
For the Ineb variant :
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u Ineb.dll
For Gws variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u GWS.dll
For Chgrgs variant
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u Chgrgs.dll
For Abeb variant
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u abeb.dll
For Bmeb variant
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u bmeb.dll
For Sbus variant
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u sbus.dll
For Drbr variant
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u drbr.dll
3) Click Internet Options->Programs->Reset Web Settings to get the normal search sidebar back, reset your homepage, and delete the extra bookmarks added to the Favorites menu.
4) Remove registry entries.
Click Start > Run, type Regedit and click Ok to open the registry editor. Expand the folder of HKEY_CURRENT_USER and then Software, locate the Ineb folder and delete it.
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