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Softomate toolbar Adware

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About Adware Softomate toolbar

Softomate is an adware implemented as Internet Explorer browser toolbar. The adware may track your surfing habit and search keywords. And displays pop-up advertisements and download updates without user notice.

How to Remove Softomate toolbar ?

Remove this spyware using Spyware Doctor.

Follow these removal steps to remove this adware from your computer:

1. Close all open Internet Explorer windows.
2. Open a Dos command prompt window (from Start > Programs > Accessories ), enter the following command:
   
   cd "%programfiles%\GameAbyss Toolbar"
   regsvr32 /u gameabyssnet.dll
   
3. Go to Start > Run, type 'regedit' and click OK to open Registry Editor.
   
4. Navigate to the key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\Webbrowser' .

   In the right pane, find and delete the value {855f3b16-6d32-4fe6-8a56-bbb695989046} .

5. Reboot the computer.
   
6. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Internet Options, select the Programs tab and then click on the "Reset Web Settings" to reset your Internet Explorer settings.
   
7. Open the %programfiles% directory ( normally this variable is expanded as 'C:\Program Files' ) , find and delete the folder "GameAbyss Toolbar" and all the contents within it.

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