Montiera Toolbars - How to remove

Montiera Toolbars is a group of toolbars that have been designed by Montiera LTD. The company is known for releasing a bunch of toolbars that are distributed using bundling method. These toolbars hijack your search results and are very hard to be remove. Some of the most popular ones include Delta Search, FunMoods, Claro Search, Mixi.Dj Toolbar, Babylon Toolbar and so on. Montiera Toolbars infiltrates while installing other programs from the Internet. Usually, users don’t notice that as they tend to install programs without paying much attention to the installation steps. That is when they actually can refuse installing Montiera Toolbars. Once inside the program makes some modifications in your system. Usually, you will notice that you homepage is changed and your default search provider is not the one you used to have anymore. Depending on which Montiera Toolbar has been added to your hijiacker your homepage and default search engine can be replaced with delta-search.com, Mixidj.claro-search.com, Isearch.claro-search.com, etc. The purpose of these programs is to create traffic to specific websites and also collect information about users online activity and their browsing habits. This information is later used for various purposes usually related to marketing. Besides, Montiera Toolbars pose risk to your security, as it can reveal your passwords or redirect you to malicious websites where you can easily be infected with a malware. you should also know that these toolbars have quite complicated removal instructions. They tend to install additional components which can make it very difficult to get rid of the toolbar. You have to go to Control Panel and check the list of Programs. If you see any unknown toolbars there, make sure to remove them, or you can use a reputable antispyware program, for example, Spyhunter which will take care of it automatically. Once you remove Montiera Toolbar, you have to fix your browser settings automatically. Depending on which browser you are using, follow the instructions below:

 

For Internet Explorer:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box
2. Do following: On IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, On ie7 click change search defaults
3. Remove the Montiera Toolbar from the list

For Mozilla Firefox :

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
5. Search for ‘browser.newtab.url’. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.

For Google Chrome:

1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar
2. Select Settings
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from list
5. Go back to settings. On Startup choose open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).

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