I seem to have acquired "surferbar" in the toolbars of internet explorer. It seemed to replace the google toolbar but doesn't go away when you add/remove the google toolbar. Does anyone know how to remove it. I've stopped it changing my homepage but adaware and spybot don't seem to remove the toolbar. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Andy

I had a simular problem, I used Spybot search & destroy to remove it. Or removing it in registry might work too, but be careful there. Perhaps HijackThis could help here also. It is at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip it will scan your registry or whatnot, may find your "addin". Then you can delete it. I would try spybot first. good luck.

Tried Spybot and AdAware and neither worked (probably need to update them both). This jerkware installs two files in the Program Files root folder. I renamed these two files and killed the winsrv32.exe process. win32.dll winsrv32.exe (process running - Kill it!) It also adds several registry entries - just search for "surferbar" in the registry and delete those entries you find. The big ones start with AD.(something) and appear safe to delete. Then change the IE start page BEFORE you open IE again or you will more than likely be infected again. This thing appears to run only under the user ID that was originally infected, not other users who log on to that computer.