Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Remove Travelocity Toolbar virus. Uninstall guide

The Travelocity Toolbar is an unwanted browser application that can be added to your Firefox, Google chrome or Internet explorer without your consent. Once you have been affected by Travelocity Toolbar virus, it will cause numerous problems along with making your ocmputer slower. It adds some extra features to your browser like Music, web Search bar, social networks and travel tool, etc.
The Travelocity Toolbar malware is usually displays commercial advertisements on victim computer. It also changes default internet settings and replaces homepage, DNS configurations with its own system. After this, you can notice that searching on Google, yahoo or Bing leads you to unwanted websites and some strange pop-up ads keep appearing again and again. Besides this, Travelocity Toolbar virus has a negative activity that you wont notice, it will track your browsing and steals personal information. You are advised to uninstall Travelocity Toolbar as soon as possible to prevent harms.
Common Symptoms of Travelocity Toolbar infection:
→ This kind of malwares usually change your Homepage, Search provider, Desktop Background.
→ They can display bunch of unstoppable pop-ups advertisements.
→ Computer performs slower then usual, browser may crash over and over.
→ Strange websites are automatically opened on the computer after a frequent interval.
→ Disabled Folder options, Task manager, Registry editing tools.
→ Advertisements from stranger companies start to appear out of nowhere.
→ Unexpected browser behaviors such as URL/link redirects.
→ Unwanted and unknown Plugin/extension or add-ons attached with browser.
→ Useless shortcuts on desktop or creepy websites added to favorites/bookmarks without your knowledge.

 
How to uninstall Travelocity Toolbar
Remove toolbars, plugins, extensions, add-ons
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox users:
Go to TOOLS and then click MANAGE ADD-ON, From there, select Extensions, Toolbars and remove the Travelocity Toolbar if found. Make sure Google is set as default search Provider.
Google Chrome Users:
Click SETTINGS icon and select SETTINGS, then open Extensions, toolbar, search provider options, remove the Travelocity Toolbar if listed there. Make sure Google is set as default search Provider.
Uninstall from Control Panel
Open CONTROL PANEL, then ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS or “Programs and Features”, now lookup for Travelocity Toolbar and uninstall if it is listed.
How to delete Travelocity Toolbar manually:
If the malware did not go away after uninstall procedure, try these steps. Please note, the manual removal method is a bit complex and it can go wrong if you perform its tasks incorrectly. It is advised to run an automatic virus removal software for safe and easy solutions. However, if you are good with Manual removal, do the steps below.
Possibly corrupt registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “DisableTaskMgr” = 1
Delete files:
Open then following folders or search for Travelocity Toolbar in My Computer and delete if found files associated with this bug.
C:\program files
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\

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