iToolbox Toolbar - How to remove

iToolbox Toolbar is a browser hijacker that is promoted together with various free downloads, for example, music players, video recorders, PDF creators, download managers, etc. Once inside, it changes your homepage and search provider on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome to search.internettoolbox.com. Although the website looks like any other search engine, it doesn’t actually perform the same way most of the search providers do. For this reason it is highly recommended to remove iToolbox Toolbar and then reset the settings of your browsers.

 

 

 

 

 

The first goal of iToolbox Toolbar is to advertise sponsored websites. For this reason, whenever you will try to use this search provider, you will see numerous links to commercial websites in your search results. It may also generate ads that also lead to sponsored pages and display them among your search results. The creators of iToolbox Toolbar are getting paid for every click you make. While in some cases, you will just end up visiting some random commercial page, sometimes iToolbox Toolbar can redirect you to malicious websites where you can get your system infected. This is one of the reasons why you should eliminate iToolbox Toolbar from your browsers as soon as you notice it there.

Another problem that the tool brings is collecting and storing your personal information. This is even disclosed at the privacy policy of this toolbar. Here is what it states:

The following personal information is collected when you use iToolBox web sites and/or the applications. Note that cookies are used on our sites to collect and store this information:

* IP address of computer
* Browser type (Internet Explorer 8, etc.)
* Browser language setting
* Other browser information (e.g. size, connection speed)
* Date and time you access our site
* Operating system or platform (Mac, Windows XP, etc.)
* The URL of the last webpage you visited before coming to our site)
* Your activity on our site(s) and application(s)
* In the case that you install our application(s), when you start your browser, the application(s) sends a configuration request

Beware that it can record your browsing habits and later involve you into other marketing related activities. You can notice excessive amount of personalized ads displayed when you browse the Internet. This type of ads are much more effective and it is much more likely that you will click on something that relates to your interests. This way you will end up visiting even more sponsored pages and increase the chances to visit malicious websites. It is strongly recommended to stay away from any programs that are related to advertisers and iToolbox Toolbar is one of them.

iToolbox Toolbar Distribution Methods

In case you are wondering how iToolbox Toolbar have infiltrated into your browser, this probably happened when you were downloading another freeware to your computer. As already mentioned, it comes bundled to free applications that can be downloaded from the Internet. It can also come bundled to various suspicious applications, including, SpeedChecker, Snap.Do, YTDownloader, etc. To avoid that, you have to be more careful with what you are installing to your system and remember that some programs may try to add additional applications to your computer. In order to see them, always go for a Custom or Advanced installation and follow every step very carefully. If you see any already selected options indicating about changing your homepage to some unknown website or offering to install an unknown program, always deselect them.

To remove iToolbox Toolbar, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs list and uninstall anything related to this domain from there. Some versions of this hijacker install software that blocks browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with , or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.

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Manual removal of iToolbox Toolbar

How to remove iToolbox Toolbar using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like iToolbox Toolbar install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to iToolbox Toolbar . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make iToolbox Toolbar easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove iToolbox Toolbar from macOS

Delete iToolbox Toolbar from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the iToolbox Toolbar app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove iToolbox Toolbar from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to iToolbox Toolbar, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove iToolbox Toolbar from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything iToolbox Toolbar related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to iToolbox Toolbar, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove iToolbox Toolbar from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to iToolbox Toolbar, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove iToolbox Toolbar from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall iToolbox Toolbar and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to iToolbox Toolbar, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.