Adware applications, toolbars and browser extensions may serve advertisements even while you are not surfing the Internet. This application may serve various types of advertising, not limited to pop-up ads. It may result in blocking the activity of a PC user since this malware consumes a lot of memory because it constantly monitors if someone is deleting it from the registry or is trying to kill it in some way. It may also block anti-virus programs and contains a list of *.exe program names in memory to block them if it detects they are running in the task manager.

License: Freeware

Download security software: EliteToolbar Remover 2.1.1

Developer: SimplyTech

The new EliteToolbar Remover deletes any traces of the following persistent malwares:

EliteBar (adware toolbar)
EliteToolbar (adware toolbar)
EliteSidebar (adware toolbar)
BargainBuddy (Adware)
Browser Aid (adware toolbar)
CashToolbar (adware toolbar)
FreshBar (also known as: ADW_FRESHBAR.B, adware)
GameSpy (adware)
InternetExplorer Plugin (adware)
MoneyTree (adware)
Nail.exe (Trojan)
NaviSearch (Adware)
navpsrvc.exe (also known as: W32/Forbot-EF, worm)
SearchMeUp (adware toolbar)
SideStep (spyware)
Spybot - Randex (Worm)
SupportSoft (spyware)
SurfSideKick (malware)
Win32.RBot (Worm)
winmon.exe (also known as: W32/Agobot-KA, trojan)
WinMoviePlugIn (adware)

And many others...

A lot of people around Internet are having problems with one of the latest Elitetoolbar malware variants, the new variants are called PokaPoka but this pest used a lot of other names in the past.

Actually some software like Spybot v.1.3 , CWShredder v.2.12 , Noadware , Adaware v.6 , SpyNuker 2004 and SBC Yahoo! Anti-spy have no success in deleting this very frustrating malware. These programs find and delete it, but it keeps coming back since this new variant is very difficult to remove from the operating system.

The main problem is that the malware creates a lot of registry entries and executes at PC startup, winding itself into RAM and deletes its own *.exe from the C:\Windows\System32 directory.

When ordinary tools try to remove it, they only clean the registry calls, the C:\Windows\EliteToolbar directory and the cabinets files where it originated from, but they don't take any action against the malware itself that is currently running in RAM and waiting for the PC OS to be shut down only to repeat the infestation once again!

This new version of the EliteToolbar has all the previous disadvantages of the CoolWebSearch malware and some new ones including pop-up windows every 2 minutes, a permanent block of the Google Toolbar (if present), redirecting of any instances of Google and Yahoo web-browsing, and so on...

This is a very tricky situation that keeps frustrating people who experience it!

What's new in Version 2.1.1?

This version take care of the new and very hard "PokaPoka" variants of the EliteToolbar malware. The PokaPoka series uses some new skill to attack your pc without leaving a sign. It uses a dll wich the people behind the malware have called Nt_HideXX.dll wich makes “trasparent” the presence of the PokaPoka process and inject it in any running task. So, that's why killing this malware in Normal Mode is virtually impossible but we did a little miracle by using some new attack to this malware. This time onward, when ETRemover finds a PokaPoka infestation, it will split its work in two steps and will complete the second step after a Re-Boot in Normal Mode. So, from the current version ETRemover could be run just in Normal Mode if you want to kill the PokaPoka malware and will do its work in two sessions (the present boot and the further boot). If you want to remove the infestation in just one session you can simply go in Safe Mode and run the program from there. You'll be sure to remove this and other infestations in that way.