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Ask toolbar- how to remove

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This arrived yesterday - from where/how/why, I know not.
I removed it via normal control panel uninstall, yet it is there again now.

I don't want it, but as it no longer appears in my list of programs, how do I do this please? - and keep it permanently away.

Thankyou for any advice.
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  • mysterio_2
    mysterio_2 Posts: 525 Forumite
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    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
    :p
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    What have you installed or allow to update recently? That'll be where it came from - in some installs/updates it is "offered" and is preselected ... if you don't do a custom install or deselect it then it'll be put in.
  • ampersand
    ampersand Posts: 9,665 Forumite
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    Putah updates automatically when I close it down.

    I HAVE now removed it - found it had insinuated itself into settings.

    Thankyou.
    CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
    01274 760721, freephone0800 328 0006
    'People don't want much. They want: "Someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for."
    Norman Kirk, NZLP- Prime Minister, 1972
    ***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
    'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET


  • westy22
    westy22 Posts: 1,105 Forumite
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    The Ask toolbar installation is ticked by default when you upgrade Java. Have you done that recently? If so, then next time it asks you to upgrade carefully look at the installation screen and make sure that the Ask toolbar is unticked.
    Old dog but always delighted to learn new tricks!
  • PDC
    PDC Posts: 805 Forumite
    westy22 wrote: »
    The Ask toolbar installation is ticked by default when you upgrade Java. Have you done that recently? If so, then next time it asks you to upgrade carefully look at the installation screen and make sure that the Ask toolbar is unticked.

    Yes, I've nearly installed it by accident with Java myself.
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