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get rid of google toolbar!

Sarahsaver
Sarahsaver Posts: 8,390 Forumite
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in Techie Stuff
Decided to install itself, dont even want it and it makes any web searches I do pretty useless!
Help!
Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.

Comments

  • Tallymanjohn
    Tallymanjohn Posts: 1,060 Forumite
    Isn't it listed in Add/Remove Programs? If not then you turn it off by right clicking on the toolbar & selecting it to remove the tick
  • Sarahsaver
    Sarahsaver Posts: 8,390 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It's gone so easily blasted thing ! Thanks so much How could it have installed itself!!!???
    Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
    I have done reading too!
    To avoid all evil, to do good,
    to purify the mind- that is the
    teaching of the Buddhas.
  • Poppycat
    Poppycat Posts: 19,899 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I hate toolbars the only one I uses coems with roboform, most of them contain spyware any how.
  • Zahc
    Zahc Posts: 986 Forumite
    Sarahsaver wrote:
    It's gone so easily blasted thing ! Thanks so much How could it have installed itself!!!???
    It probably came with some software you've loaded lately, google are into everything nowadays.....
  • humfer
    humfer Posts: 1,779 Forumite
    Zahc wrote:
    It probably came with some software you've loaded lately, google are into everything nowadays.....

    Thats the normal trick - if you have recently downloaded Google Earth or Piscasa they normally leave it 'ticked' in the options boxes
  • Alfonso_Skinarelli
    Alfonso_Skinarelli Posts: 323 Forumite
    Reading the End User License Agreement before installing whichever software accompanied the google toolbar will have prevented it's installation if the correct option had been chosen. Unfortunately, folk seldom read them. It's a bit like taking medicine without reading the instructions first.....
  • theCapt
    theCapt Posts: 223 Forumite
    usually get he choice to install stuff like this but it is usually under cutom install rather than typical or normal.
    Scottish proverb - "Never drink whisky with water and never drink water without whisky"
  • Took_Me_Away
    Took_Me_Away Posts: 212 Forumite
    Yeah don't just click click click and then wonder why all this crap is on your machine. Mind you i actually like Google toolbar. stops pop ups, immediate Google search which surely everybody uses as there search engine anyway. Spell checker etc. Also direct link to gmail...

    Its quality in my view :)
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