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Advertbar Adware

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About Adware Advertbar

Advertbar is a series of program produced by AdTools, Inc. These small advertising Windows programs usually show some animations on your desktop, such as the animals from "Ice Age," the animated movie. By accessing your desktop, Advertbar silently connects to its controlling server and deliver advertiser messages on your screen. It may drop the file ice_age.exe to your system.

How to Remove Advertbar ?

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To manually remove this adware, please follow these instructions:

1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, select the entry "AdTools" or "Ice Age", then click Add/Remove or Change/Remove to uninstall the program.
   
2. Open the Regsitry Editor (Click Start > Run, type 'regedit').
   
3. Delete The following keys and all the subkeys under it:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AdTools
   
4. Close Registry Editor.
   

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