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| ALOT Toolbar Creates a Discerning Situation Among PC UsersALOT Toolbar is a malicious toolbar that at the aid of a Trojan horse is able to embed itself into a web browser application acting has a browser helper object that changes settings and redirects PC users to unwanted web sites.
By: EnigmaSoftware.com ALOT Toolbar was created by a company that is in the business of marketing a search engine toolbar. Through ALOT Toolbar, hackers are able to use it as a means of hijacking PC user search results or sending them to malevolent sites. ALOT Toolbar has an appearance that does not look very harmful. In fact, ALOT Toolbar blends nicely into the graphical interface of web browsers such as Internet Explorer. Many times ALOT Toolbar does not go noticed by some computer users. Using the features of ALOT Toolbar is usually a thoughtless process where a PC user is unknowingly redirected to a bad web site or one that promotes some type of misleading product. ALOT Toolbar is known to change settings on a system’s default web browser. Also, in some cases, ALOT Toolbar may change the default home page settings of other web browsers installed on the effected PC. PC users who take notice to ALOT Toolbar and seek ways to remove it, have encountered road blocks when it they attempt to uninstall ALOT Toolbar. ALOT Toolbar was created to avoid uninstallation and removal using conventional methods. For PC users to remove ALOT Toolbar, they may need to utilize an updated antispyware program. Such removal resources can be found on new removal reports tailored to removing ALOT Toolbar. One particular place that a removal resource for eliminating ALOT Toolbar can be found on a removal report at http://www.enigmasoftware.com/ End
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