Freshy Toolbar

Have you downloaded the Freshy Toolbar onto your Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers? Where did you acquire this suspicious application from? If you have downloaded it from ct8589.ourtoolbar.com, you now have a toolbar which links you to softonic.com, apps.conduit.com, google.com/search, freshy123.xanga.com, and other websites alike. If you have acquired the toolbar from welcomefreshy.ourtoolbar.com, you may find links to Facebook and thefreedictionary.com. Both of these plugins belong to Conduit Ltd., and we recommend that you delete them from your browsers. Continue reading the report to learn how to remove Freshy Toolbar from the browsers and the computer.

Are you familiar with Bitlord Toolbar, Connect Toolbar, Oscar Delta Toolbar and other Conduit family add-ons? Even though these extensions may seem beneficial at first, you need to be extra careful about the way they work. First of all, you must beware of the third party software which may travel bundled with the toolbar. Therefore, once you decide to download the application and you are presented with the setup – pay close attention to the presented information. Secondly, you need to be extra cautious about software and tools which may be presented. We recommend refusing any additional software packaged with Freshy Toolbar, including Conduit search tools because they have been discovered to be unreliable and void.

If you have discovered that the start page/home page of your web browsers has been changed to the suspicious search.conduit.com, you must have accepted a replacement during the installation process. Even though the Conduit search tools may prove to be useful at certain times, you should not trust them without caution. As you may have noticed already, the suspicious application may route you to the Google search engine, which is quite suspicious. Depending on the version of the Freshy Toolbar that you run, it could redirect you to a number of suspicious sites as well. What is more, you could be presented with sponsored search results, as well as suspicious banner advertisements. Clicking on these is not recommended.

If you have decided to delete Freshy Toolbar from the PC and remove the Conduit search tools from the browsers, you can follow the manual removal instructions presented bellow. Note that if the plugin has been dropped onto the PC without your authorization, it must have been installed illegally. This suggests that computer infections could have corrupted the operating system. In this case it is strongly recommended that you install automatic malware detection and removal software onto the operating system.

Delete Freshy Toolbar

Delete from Windows XP:

1. Open the Start menu, click Control Panel and then Add or Remove Programs.
2. Move to Change or Remove Programs, click the undesirable application and select Remove.

Delete from Windows Vista/Windows 7:

1. Move to the Task Bar, click the Start menu icon and select Control Panel.
2. Go to Uninstall a program and right-click the application you wish to remove. Click Uninstall.

Delete from Windows 8:

1. Right-click on the Metro UI menu, select All apps and click Control Panel.
2. Move to Uninstall a program, find the application you wish to remove, right-click it and select Uninstall.

Remove Conduit search tools

Remove from Internet Explorer:

1. Launch IE, simultaneously tap Alt+T and select Manage Add-ons.
2. In the utility find the menu on the left and select Search Providers.
3. Choose a new search provider, Remove the undesirable one and click Close.
4. Tap Alt+T once more and select Internet Options.
5. Click the General tab and move the cursor to the Home Page section.
6. Overwrite/delete the represented URL and click OK.

Remove from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Launch Firefox and move to the search box on the top-right corner.
2. Click the search provider icon and select Manage Search Engines.
3. Remove the undesirable search engine and click OK.
4. Click the search provider icon again and click the search provider of your preference.
5. Simultaneously tap Alt+T to open the Tools menu and click Options.
6. Click the General tab, overwrite/remove the Home Page and click OK.

Remove from Google Chrome:

1. Launch Chrome, simultaneously tap Alt+F and select Settings.
2. Under On Startup mark Open a specific page or set of pages and click Set pages.
3. Overwrite/remove the URL of an undesirable search engine and click OK.
4. Under Appearance mark Show Home button, click Change and repeat step 3.
5. Under Search click Manage search engines and choose a new default search engine.
6. Click X on the URL representing the unreliable search engine and select Done.