How to Remove Ask Toolbar and Ask.com Browser Hijacker

Browser extensions (Toolbars) are considered to be useful in most situations, your browsing experience maybe improved due to some excellent toolbars. But things may not head for the direction you want, sometimes they just got worse. Not all browser toolbars are friendly. Ask Toolbar is one of the bad ones. If you have this toolbar and couldn’t get rid of it, you can know more on this blog.

Ask Toolbar or Ask.com Browser Hijacker

 

Ask Toolbar doesn’t work alone, it comes with Ask.com Browser Hijacker. Actually, they work as a pair. If you mistakenly download Ask Toolbar, Ask.com browser hijacker malware will sneak into your computer since they are bundled together. Ask Toolbar is defined as one adware and malicious browser malware. It can infect Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. In one word, it will spread really fast on your computer browsers. Not only can it live in your browser, it will also root one part deeply into your key system parts, that makes it hard to be detected by antivirus.


Ask Toolbar is really annoying for most of the time. It will pop up useless information and advertisements when you use the Internet. You can’t gain anything worth through it. The worst thing is yet to come. Ask.com browser hijacker will change your default browser settings and redirect your visit. In the background, it can download viruses to your computer. You may notice that there are many unknown applications which you never heard of before appear on your computer, you can’t uninstall them. Computer also runs slower than before. Hackers will have the ability to log on your computer remotely.

As you can see, we definitely need to get rid of Ask Toolbar and Ask.com browser hijacker as soon as possible. If you need professional virus removal help, you can contact Tee Support Service Center. You will be fine with us.

 

Removal Guide for Ask Toolbar or Ask.com Browser Hijacker

 

Step 1: Please log in Safe Mode with Networking.

Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap "F8" key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then press Enter.

Step 2: Using Control Panel to remove unwanted programs.

Click Start Menu, choose Control Panel. Go to Add or Remove Programs. In the program list, try to find out Ask Toolbar or Ask.com, click Uninstall. You can also uninstall those unwanted programs.

Step 3: Set back your favorite homepage. (Take IE as example)

Open your IE browser. Click on Tools, choose Internet Options. In the General tab, you can input your favorite website as homepage, click Apply to finish.

Step 4: Open your Registry Editor, remove these infected entries.

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRn
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe”

Learn to Remove Browser Malware by Watching this Video

 

 

 

Important tips: Sufficient computer skills will be required in dealing with Ask Toolbar. Any wrong move in dealing with processes, .dll files and registry entries may lead to mistake damaging your system, so please be careful during the manual removal operation. If you cannot proceed by yourself, you can start a live chat with Tee Support Online Experts. You will be fine in no time.