I feel for ya' on the toolbar. I haven't had that happen yet (yet) but have had some similar pests. Not long ago I accidentally clicked 'yes' on a “make this site your homepage” pop-up. For about a week I toiled with removing that. Re-installing the browser, etc. did no good.

Finally I remembered what really makes windoz work- the registry! Zip zap and gone. Since that time I have had to use the registry to remove a few other things. There are a few sites, the ones I've found are in Europe, that seem to want persistent virtually impossible to locate mini-programs to run whenever I log on.

I use a decent registry cleaner, ctrl-alt-del to see what else is running and of course a firewall. Sad that the Internet is drifting this way. From “autoloads” to persistent pop-ups/unders that seem to never want to disappear to spam this once upon a time great place to find the weird and off the wall views is growing.

I can still remember all the newsgroup flak when a couple lawyers started selling their services :-) Times change. Those lawyers merely showed everyone else the door, now we all enjoy the stampede.

What may seem an annoyance to one person is a marketing tool to another.

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