6/29/2013

Easy Way to Remove Oople Toolbar - Oople Toolbar Uninstall Guide



Oople Toolbar is a browser hijacker which can mess up your computer. You may get this nasty virus while clicking junk email attachments, visiting hijacked websites, installing free softwares and so on. Once installed, it will add the Oople Toolbar, and change your browser homepage and default search engine with notification and approval. If you don’t take the mess on your browser seriously, just remove Oople Toolbar from your precious machine without any delay. You may encounter the following troubles:
  1. Search results from Google link to incorrect webpages while search results from other search engines operate correctly;
  2. Installed anti-virus program detects nothing to get rid of Oople pop up/redirect issue;
  3. Scans run by various anti-spyware programs and some other security utilities help nothing at all;
  4. Privacy will be collected and will be resold to other spammers, which is why you are seeing additional virus been detected;
  5. Computer will not download new anti-virus programs;
  6. You are taken to fake sites that personate legit ones;
  7. Error messages will pop up when trying to do some changes to the computer;
  8. PC performance is poorer and poorer, with that, page loading speed is also deteriorating.

 

How to Remove Oople Toolbar ?
1. Disable any suspicious startup items.

For Windows XP:

Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items including those of Oople.

2. Show hidden files 

a) open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;
b) under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;
c) click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, Search for and delete these files created by Oople.com:
  • %Temp%\[random]\
  • %Temp%\[random]\[random]agnz.exe
  • %AppData%\random.exe


3. Delete all registry values related to Oople in your local hard disk C.
  • HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\random
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\CustomizeSearch=[site address]
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Search Bar=[site address]
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet 


Remove the Oople Toolbar From Browsers
1. Remove add-ons:

Internet Explorer:
1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;
2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;
3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.

Google Chrome
1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;
2) Choose ‘Basic Options’;
3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage Search Engines…’ button;
4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select ‘Search Result’ from the list to remove it by clicking the ‘X’ mark.    

Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;
2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab;  


2. Disable proxy
  1. Click on Tools on the menu bar
  2. select Internet options
  3. go to Connections tab
  4. select LAN settings at the bottom of the dialog
  5. under the Proxy sever, untick 'use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections).'
  6. Click OK 

Note: If you have any problem during the removal process (cannot find the threat in control panel or it cannot be deleted from add&remove program), please contact Tee Support agents 24/7online for more detailed instructions.



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