How do I get rid of "MyStart by IncrediBar"?
I have not found any way of deleting MyStart from booting up with Firefox.
I have no idea how it got into my computer.
Please provide some help with this.
Thank you............... Rich
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*[[/questions/930367]] (page=2)
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How do I get rid of MyStart?
I have tried to get rid of MyStart via Internet Explorer, but it even overtakes that program. Is MyStart part of Mozilla or something different? I no longer have any of my Mozilla history. Can you please help?
Thanks for your reply. I couldn't find the Location Bar so I did what philipp suggested which worked. Thanks for the info on the free scanners which I have just used.
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How can I get rid of mystart.incredibar completely?
I have been through this process several times. I cannot work out how mystart.incredibar gets back in.
I now only use Firefox to prevent incredibar creeping in from other browsers. But it is still in the new page tabs.
Also, given that this is a major nuisance, why hasn't Firefox taken steps to get rid of it at source?While you can try the method described here:
* http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-mystart-by-incredibar-virus/
It sounds like the third party application installed several extensions in Firefox without your knowledge. For a manual removal in Firefox, follow the steps below, otherwise reset Firefox as explained in the link above:
# Click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and choose Add-ons.
# In the Add-ons Manager tab, select the Extensions panel.
# Select the toolbar you wish to remove in addition to all other suspicious extensions.
# Click the Remove button.
# Click "Restart now" if it pops up. Your tabs will be saved and restored after the restart.
After Firefox restarts, install the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/ Search Reset Tool]. This will remove the rest of the traces of this program from your Firefox.
For further information, please read [[Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page]].
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How can I get rid of Mystart Incredibar as my hoepage?
You see, this sort of happened after I was downloading Photoshop CS2. Before then it was Babylon, but the Mystart is really bothering me because when I want a new tab, it freezes Firefox. I find it really annoying when I am loading something ''important''. I thought dragging the Google icon - '''because I wanted it as my homepage, ''(it was originally that'')''' - to the homepage button would solve it but it didn't.
Can anyone help me and get rid of this stupid thing? And if you can, explain it simply because I don't really understand computers as expertly. Right, and explain what one thing is, because I don't know the necessary terms for it.The simplest way is to uninstall and reinstall Firefox. It took me about 3 minutes. If you've reached this page, you've already spent more time than that.
I had internet explorer (IE) installed - I need it for work and Firefox for classes - both were infected when I didn't notice the "free recommended" download from a software application I needed. I was downloading the software from the current Firefox version, 16.0.2(?).
The first thing I tried was uninstalling incredibar/mystart from the control panel in Windows 7 and restarting - didn't work, both browsers still had MyStart as default. Resetting the default search engine didn't work, either.
I read the directions others had posted - including:
The correct way to get Incredimail Mystart out of Firefox is:
1. At Firefox address bar, enter about:config and press ENTER.
2. At Filter: field, type keyword.url
3. You should see a Preference name of keyword.URL in the list. Double click it, a "Enter String Value" input box will appear.
4. Replace the string with: http://www.google.com.my/search?q= Click "OK" button
For Internet Explorer, you just install Google Toolbar again, and Mystart goes away.
HOWEVER!!
-These instructions worked for internet explorer (IE) (Nov. 2012) - BUT
Since those instructions were posted, the MyStart Incredibar infection (Infection is my word) has gotten more insidious. After following those instructions and restarting my computer, MyStart still came up in Firefox - but not IE. In fact, it had deleted the navigation address bar in Firefox!
After managing to get the navigation bar back, I returned to the instructions (now at 30+ minutes of frustration) and scrolled through the list that comes up after step 1 "about:config and press ENTER". I found about 50 - 100 bolded items mentioning incredibar. I thought about using the reset option, but there were so many places that it became obvious what the answer was.
So . . . if you've read this whole post, you've spent more time than it took me to uninstall/reinstall FireFox.
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For the past few months I have been trying to get rid of MyStart by Incredibar. I have reset my computer to Firefox default, I have restarted Firefox with and without addons, I have searched with windows explorer and found and removed anything with incredibar and mystart and even file extensions. I am not particularly adept at understanding all the programming that constitutes the set up of my computer but with a step by step guide I can probably clean my machine. Please will someone help me just get rid of it.
In order to uninstall a possibly unwanted extension, please do the following:
#From the Firefox window click the Firefox button at the top left and select ''Add-ons'', or, if the Firefox button is not shown, click the ''Tools'' menu and click ''Add-ons''.
#Once the Add-on Manager has opened in a new tab, click the ''Extensions'' button on the left side of the window.
#You should now see a list of your installed extensions on the right side together with buttons on the right side of each extension.
#To remove an extension from Firefox, simply click the ''Remove'' button. You should see a message that informs you about the successful removal of the add-on.
#Note that some add-ons require a Firefox restart to be removed completely. To perform a Firefox restart after the add-on removal, click the ''Restart now'' link in the message.
You can find further information about uninstalling extensions in the following articles:
[[Disable or remove Add-ons]]
[[Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page]] -
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