BrowserToolbar Description:

BrowserToolbar is an IE toolbar object which comes with various other components that act as adware and spyware. BrowserToolbar can be downloaded and installed from the manufacturer's site, but it more likely to come as an affiliate's drive-by-download (ActiveX install). BrowserToolbar is known to have been installed at least once by exploiting a security flaw in Internet Explorer.

Also known as: ausvc (after the filename of one of its components), Backdoor.Autoupder, Downloader-W, BrowseEvt, TROJ_SUA.A.

BrowserToolbar Automatic Removal:

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BrowserToolbar Manual Removal:

There is an entry for 7FaSSt Search in Add/Remove Programs, which removes the main part of the software. To clean up, go to 'Downloaded Program Files' in the Windows folder and remove the entries for '{669695BC-A811-4A9D-8CDF-BA8C795F261E}' and 'FSInstall_1 Control'. (The latter is not actually an installer; it's just used by the installing web page to set an affiliate and unique user number before installing the software.)

You can also run 'regedit' and remove the key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7Search' from the registry if you like.

1. Kill these running processes with Task Manager:

systemroot+\absr.exe
systemroot+\abstr.exe
systemroot+\ausvc.exe
systemroot+\auupg.exe
systemroot+\bvt.exe
systemroot+\mnsvc.exe
systemroot+\undo.exe

2. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. If you find the value , delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
    
3. Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{6541b981-2e27-46b1-a2cc-8264a75b74fe}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{6d8b1b74-4ab8-473b-b479-253fa1936802}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{868b015f-3515-44db-b0ad-182cd058985e}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{9a05fe9b-5b52-4d13-a77d-fa7c38557a8e}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{bae85c97-2cd4-45c3-a1ed-e4cef7c6aa52}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{c76be992-2bc3-41a4-8b87-a8c01fe419a7}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{f53c844a-d9c8-4e92-b923-c05b46c4a7e3}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\appid
\{8b034058-08b0-4cb3-b2e8-60238b4967f2}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid
\{6541b981-2e27-46b1-a2cc-8264a75b74fe}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid
\{868b015f-3515-44db-b0ad-182cd058985e}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid
\{9a05fe9b-5b52-4d13-a77d-fa7c38557a8e}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid
\{bae85c97-2cd4-45c3-a1ed-e4cef7c6aa52}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid
\{c76be992-2bc3-41a4-8b87-a8c01fe419a7}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid
\{f53c844a-d9c8-4e92-b923-c05b46c4a7e3}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid
\{fbe091e5-df43-4ffb-aecc-7e3a3bc7b0d9}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\typelib
\{6d8b1b74-4ab8-473b-b479-253fa1936802}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\mnsvc
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\sysscan

4. Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

systemroot+\absr.exe
systemroot+\abstr.exe
systemroot+\ausvc.exe
systemroot+\auupg.exe
systemroot+\bvt.exe
systemroot+\coolstuff.ocx
systemroot+\ea.bin
systemroot+\mnsvc.exe
systemroot+\mtbcd.bak
systemroot+\undo.exe

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