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Remove AdultLinks Spyware
About AdultLinks
AdultLinks is an hijack program that adds links to porn and other sites to the Internet Explorer Favorites menu. While it is installed, it opens web pages that will direct you to can add more links. The variant AdultLinks/QcBar provides a separate AdultLinks toolbar instead.
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How to Remove AdultLinks ?
The QcBar variant have an 'uninstall' option on the 'Adult Links' toolbar menu.
To manually remove AdultLinks/LinkZZ:
- Open the 'Downloaded Program Files' folder in the Windows folder, right-click the 'NullCtrl Class' entry, and remove it.
- Delete the 'Adult Links', 'AdultSearch' and 'Sports' folders from both the Favorites folder, and the Links folder inside it.
- Open the registry editor(Click Start->Run, type regedit), find the key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LinkZZ' and delete it.
To manually remove AdultLinks/QcBar:
- Open the registry edit (Click Start->Run, type regedit) and delete the following keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{765E6B09-6832-4738-BDBE-25F226BA2AB0}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Code Store Database\Distribution Units\{765E6B09-6832-4738-BDBE-25F226BA2AB0}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QcBar
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QcBar
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QcBar.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Allch.IEObj
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Allch.IEObj.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{765E6B09-6832-4738-BDBE-25F226BA2AB0}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D6FC35D1-04AB-4D40-94CF-2E5AE4D0F8D2}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{ED7D1356-F7C2-4A27-A87C-C0DFEB3A628F}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{242CA913-1637-4F74-9729-EA349AF3ECAC}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C02EE3A0-1881-419F-A5ED-737223463292}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{60381D4B-8129-449A-A5F2-5417AD0571CC}
- Restart Windows.
- Open a DOS command prompt window (from Start->Programs->Accessories) and enter the following commands:
del "%WinDir%\Downloaded Program Files\allch.dll"
del "%WinDir%\Downloaded Program Files\QcBar.dll"
- Delete the 'Adult Links', 'AdultSearch' and 'Sports' folders from the Favorites folder, and remove the 'Adult Links Daily' link from the desktop and Start menu.
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