OoVoo Toolbar - How to remove

OoVoo Toolbar is a program that gets into Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers and offers video chat function. Though some may find it interesting and useful, usually computer users get surprised about getting a toolbar out of nowhere, especially because it cause some unwanted actions. Oovoo Toolbar is added to your browser when you are installing some program from the Internet. Usually it is possible to avoid that during the installation, however many users do not follow each step when installing the program and end up downloading additional programs automatically.

Oovoo Toolbar makes some modifications in the browser which make oovoo Search your default search engine and builds some other buttons in your browser, including the video chat button that was mentioned above. This video chat is supposed to be the main function of this program but while  some of you may find it useful, others can just get annoyed about additional buttons being added on your browser without your permission. For this reason many users consider removing OoVoo Toolbar.

What is important to mention is that the search engine of this program doesn’t provide the most reliable results as it includes many sponsored websites. It is also very annoying to have you default search engine changed without your permission. If you want to remove OoVoo Toolbar, we recommend performing the following steps to uninstall this program quickly and easily.

For this you should go to Control Panel, Add and Remove Programs list and remove any components related to OoVoo Toolbar. After that  you might need to reset your search provider manually. Below you can see how to do it depending on the browser you are using:

On Internet explorer:

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

On 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.

On 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).

Finally, you are recommended to scan your computer with a reputable antispyware program, for example, Spyhunter. This program will guarantee that all entries of OoVoo Toolbar are gone.

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