Ask.com là gì, Đây là cách gỡ bỏ ask toolbar và ask

It's easy to lớn get Ask.com's toolbar installed on your browser—even if you didn't want it—but it's quite a challenge to lớn remove sầu. Here's how you can get rid of it without going crazy.

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I frequently get comments that users are clearly informed when they are prompted lớn install these add-ons, so they shouldn"t complain when it happens. While I agree that users should be deliberate when installing software and scrutinizing every line and checkbox that comes up, it"s also clear that there are serious problems with an entire distribution Model that relies on users not noticing what"s happening.

In some cases, the "typical" installation already includes the add-on and the only way to turn it off is to lớn use the "custom" installation, which many users won"t vày.

It also doesn"t help that, at least on the Java installer, users are shown the message "We recommover installing the FREE Browser Add-on from Ask." From a user"s standpoint, if you are installing software, you don"t expect recommendations of other programs that have nothing to vì chưng with what you are currently trying to vì. If it"s recommended, you should listen, right?

Wrong.

How vị I Make it Stop?You didn"t notice the checkbox in your rush khổng lồ hit Next, or didn"t realize what the Ask Toolbar was going khổng lồ bởi, and now you are paying the price. Have no fear—here is what you can vì lớn get rid of it from all your browsers.

Remember, just removing the software that installed the toolbar won"t vì anything. Uninstalling Java laves the Ask toolbar on your system. We need to uninstall Ask Toolbar Updater và Ask Toolbar from your computer. Ask.com provides a fairly detailed danh sách of steps on how to uninstall the toolbar & also a "Ask Toolbar Remover" tool. The tool seems to work only with older versions of the toolbar and is not always effective sầu for recent versions, though.

Let"s stiông chồng with the manual process.

1.Control Panel > Uninstall a programBefore we bởi anything, we make sure all browsers are closed. Cheông xã the Task Manager khổng lồ make sure none of the browsers are open. (Maybe you should print the directions out first, or use a different device to lớn display this page)

Then, we open up Control Panel & go to "Uninstall a program" (Add or Remove Programs if you are still on Windows XP). In the danh sách of applications, find & uninstall Ask Toolbar Updater và Ask Toolbar.

If you have already done this and you still have sầu a problem, look for any applications in the list that has "Ask" in the quảng cáo online field.

With the software gone, the next step is to lớn clean up the Web browser. The toolbar installed several browser extensions, changed your default homepage to lớn nl.ask.com, and changed the mặc định tìm kiếm engine to use Ask.com.

Cleaning Up Internet Explorer

2.Cleaning up Internet ExplorerYou can remove the add-ons from Internet Explorer by clicking on the gear ibé (the settings ibé is shown as "Tools" on Windows XP) on the upper right corner and selecting "Manage add-ons."

Select "Toolbars & Extensions" in the right pane of the "Manage Add-ons" window & select all the extensions that are associated with Ask.com, such as Ask Toolbar (there may be several), IESalesProspectsToolbarInstaller_S-PV_tbr_sa_hpr_1.15.23.0, and askBar BHO, amuốn others. Cliông chồng on the Disable button at the bottom of the window. You can also right-cliông xã on the extension & then select Disable from the menu. This has to be done individually for each extension.

This is a good time to lớn just clean out other unknown extensions, as well, since it could be lurking under some other name.

To change the mặc định tìm kiếm engine baông xã khổng lồ Bing (by mặc định on Internet Explorer), you clichồng on "Search Providers" in the right pane of the same "Manage Add-ons" window. Ask.com will show up in the danh sách. Cliông xã on the "Remove" button at the bottom of the window khổng lồ get rid of it. Cliông chồng on "Bing" và then the "Set as Default" button. You can also right-click lớn get lớn the same options.

You can cthua trận Manage Add-Ons at this point. Go bachồng lớn the gear ibé & select Internet options" from the thực đơn. Under the General tab, in the "Home page" section, you will see various URLs. Cliông xã on "Use default" lớn remix the browser to the Microsoft page. If you want lớn have a different page, change the URL manually after you"ve mix the browser to lớn use the default page.

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Cleaning Up Google Chrome

3.Cleaning up Google ChromeMake sure you uninstalled the software from Control Panel first before trying khổng lồ clean up Chrome, because otherwise, you won"t be able khổng lồ remove the registryProcess extension in Chrome.

You can remove the extensions from Chrome by clicking on the settings ibé (an ibé with three horizontal lines), selecting "Tools," and then "Extensions."

Select "Extensions" in the right pane of the Extensions page, & select all the extensions that associated with Ask.com, such as Ask Toolbar. To remove sầu them, cliông chồng on the trash can (recycle bin) icon on the right corner of each extension. See other extensions you don"t recognize or no longer want? Clean them up while you are at it.

To change the mặc định tìm kiếm engine baông chồng khổng lồ Google (by default on Chrome), go baông xã to lớn the settings icon to lớn select "Settings." Once you are on the settings page, click on "Manage Search engines" under the "search" section. In the Search Engines dialog, you select Google và cliông xã on the "Make default" button. If you select on ask.com, you will see an "X" appear on the right corner of the menu. Cliông xã on the "x" khổng lồ remove sầu the tìm kiếm engine.

Back on the Settings page, under the "On Startup" section, there is an option lớn either "open the new tab page," "continue where I left off," or "open a specific page or phối of pages." Clichồng on "mở cửa the New Tab page." You can also go in lớn the "mix pages" liên kết (after you"ve changed to lớn open new tab) to manually mix a different page as your mặc định home page.

Cleaning Up Mozilla Firefox

4.Cleaning up Mozilla FirefoxYou remove sầu add-ons and extensions from Firefox by clicking on Tools on the menu bar, (or the orange Firefox button if you are using an older version) & selecting "Add-ons."

Select " Extensions" option in the right pane of the "Add-ons Manager" window và select all the extensions that are associated with Ask.com, such as Ask Toolbar. Just click on the "remove" (or uninstall) button lớn get rid of them entirely; no need to bother with "disable." Clean out other unknown extensions, as well.

Mozilla has a SearchReset add-on that makes it easy lớn rephối the search engine và homepage bachồng lớn defaults. You can tìm kiếm for và tải về SearchRephối from the add-ons gallery ("Get Add-ons" from the "Add-ons Manager" window). After installing, the add-on resets tìm kiếm preferences and home page page lớn browser defaults & then uninstalls itself.

If you don"t want to lớn download yet another software, you can clichồng on the small tìm kiếm arrow near the tìm kiếm bar at the top of the browser (mine shows up next lớn the browser icon). Select the "Manage search engines…" option & remove sầu any Ask related tìm kiếm engines listed here.

You then go bachồng khổng lồ Tools and select Options. On the General tab, delete all the URLs listed in the box. If you cliông chồng "Restore to Default," it reverts lớn the browser defaults. At this point, you can freshly type in the actual page that should be phối as your trang chủ page.

You can also bởi vì a more extreme step & rephối Firefox by going to the Help thực đơn và clicking on "Troubleshooting Information." This opens up the about:support page, which displays a big button to lớn "Reset Firefox" on the top right corner.

Firefox will cthua trận và remix. The next time you open Firefox, it will have all factory defaults—and all your personal options will be removed. Don"t vị this if you want to keep your bookmarks & other configuration settings.

Getting Rid of The Traces

5.Getting Rid of The TracesAt this point, you should be mix. However, in some cases, the toolbar may have sầu left registry keys behind. Several adware cleaners detect & remove objects relating to the Ask.com toolbar. It"s not a bad idea to lớn tải về & run an adware utility such as AdwCleaner khổng lồ just make sure everything has been cleaned up.

If you are still having problems, it could be that you have multiple programs installed that use Ask Toolbar. This is why it"s a good idea lớn remove software & extensions you aren"t actively using.

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More importantly, run an antivirut scanner of your choice afterwards. While Ask Toolbar itself is not malicious, there have been cases where scammers and criminals bundled the toolbar into lớn their own malicious software to lớn make it look legitimate. After you"ve sầu removed the toolbar, vị a thorough scan to lớn make sure malware hasn"t piggybacked its way onkhổng lồ your computer.