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Remove
Searchexplorer
About
Searchexplorer
/
SearchexplorerBar
Searchexplorer
is adware and adware that is distributed through Active-X downloads. It adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer. When the toolbar is enabled, it sends the urls and page titles you visited to its controlling server (
Adpowerzone.com
) and displays popup ads when certain keywords matched. The program may aslo upgrade itself silently.
How to Remove
Searchexplorer
?
Follow these instructions to remove this spyware from your computer:
- Click Start > Settings > Control Panel.
- Double click Add/Remove Programs.
- Scroll down the program list till you find the entry
'Toolbar - Searching-4U', click on it and Change/Remove to remove it.
- Repeat for
Searching-4U .
- Open the Program Files folder, search for and delete the following folders:
search-explorer
searching-4u
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