Bearshare is spyware or malware attached to firefox - how do i get rid of it?

bearshare is spyware or malware attached to firefox - how do i get rid of it?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I ran across bearshare a few days ago - can't get rid of it. ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

Do a Google search "remove bearshare" (including quotation marks).
-This is a real mess and involves editing the registry.
-If you do not know what you are doing, DO NOT DO IT!
-Get help from someone who is familiar with registry editing.
-And backup all registry keys before deleting them.
-You can completely disable your system if you do something wrong in the registry.

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