Remove Surfbar

Learn how to uninstall and remove Surferbar spyware in our Surferbar removal article. In this series of our getting rid of Spyware and Adware articles, you shall learn about how to successfully remove the Surferbar Spyware and successfully get rid of it from your system.

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SurfBar is a porn related toolbar and home page hijacker for Internet Explorer.

SurfBar is installed by taking advantage a recent Internet Explorer exploit which allows the SurfBar executable to be installed when a user visits a particular website or receives and email spam. For details on this security exploit, please visit the Microsoft site at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-032.mspx

SurfBar installs a toolbar in Internet Explorer that links to a dozen porn sites.

SurfBar also installs many folders on the local machine, into which various URL shortcuts are dropped. A large proportion of these shortcuts are porn-related.

Surferbar behavior

• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Surferbar remove and uninstalling Introduction

Kill processes :
winsrv32.exe, wins32.exe

Delete registry values:
Browse to the key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run \ Once
Delete the entry 'c:\program files\winsrv32.exe' or 'c:\program files\wins32.exe'

Delete files:
win32.dll, winsrv32.exe, drg.exe, wins32.exe, sfbar.exe