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AZESEARCH REMOVAL
Subject: AZESearch Toolbar Removal
http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/129909.html
Subject: AZESEARCH uninstall
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/133346.html

AZeSearch places a HOST file in windows to redirect all search addresses to a bogus site that loads look-alike-pages with bad url links. Just search your windows directories for HOST and delete them. You can preview inside and see the dirty work these files do - many websites are rediredted. Primary purpose of host files is for manually networking computer names to IP addresses. Shame on that dirtbag who made AZeSearch!

azesearch toolbar removal instructions can be found here.

You don't have to do anything complicated.
I downloaded a few kinds of software (XX Doctor and other things) from download.com, hoping to find one that would save my computer. After a painfully long dragging process of scanning, in the end a long list of files was shown and asked me "if I wanted to clean them, I had to go to such and such website and pay" (the prices were ranged from about $20-$40). I was furious, because some of these things were listed as 'free'. I deleted all the programs in a rage because they have teased me a big time at the very moment of a crisis. Then I went on and found Spybot-- totally free and it scanned through all the files in a breeze. It took less than half of the scanning time that the other programs had taken, and I was left with a 'clean' computer. All I had to do was to restart and repeat the process (also done in a breeze), and then I went to the brower, delteted some files from the 'Favorites' folder and changed the infected 'Home Page'. In one corner of this software the author has provided an area for some kind of donation. I am definitely going to show my appreciation by doing so because as long as I still own a computer I will use this program. It's a life saver.