iToolbox Toolbar Removal Guide - How to remove the iToolbox Toolbar?

What is iToolbox Toolbar?

iToolbox Toolbar is a browser hijacker that is promoted together with various free downloads, for example, music players, video recorders, PDF creators, download managers, etc. Once inside, it changes your homepage and search provider on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome to search.internettoolbox.com. Although the website looks like any other search engine, it doesn’t actually perform the same way most of the search providers do. For this reason it is highly recommended to remove iToolbox Toolbar and then reset the settings of your browsers.

The first goal of iToolbox Toolbar is to advertise sponsored websites. For this reason, whenever you will try to use this search provider, you will see numerous links to commercial websites in your search results. It may also generate ads that also lead to sponsored pages and display them among your search results. The creators of iToolbox Toolbar are getting paid for every click you make. While in some cases, you will just end up visiting some random commercial page, sometimes iToolbox Toolbar can redirect you to malicious websites where you can get your system infected. This is one of the reasons why you should eliminate iToolbox Toolbar from your browsers as soon as you notice it there.

Another problem that the tool brings is collecting and storing your personal information. This is even disclosed at the privacy policy of this toolbar. Here is what it states:

The following personal information is collected when you use iToolBox web sites and/or the applications. Note that cookies are used on our sites to collect and store this information:

* IP address of computer
* Browser type (Internet Explorer 8, etc.)
* Browser language setting
* Other browser information (e.g. size, connection speed)
* Date and time you access our site
* Operating system or platform (Mac, Windows XP, etc.)
* The URL of the last webpage you visited before coming to our site)
* Your activity on our site(s) and application(s)
* In the case that you install our application(s), when you start your browser, the application(s) sends a configuration request
Beware that it can record your browsing habits and later involve you into other marketing related activities. You can notice excessive amount of personalized ads displayed when you browse the Internet. This type of ads are much more effective and it is much more likely that you will click on something that relates to your interests. This way you will end up visiting even more sponsored pages and increase the chances to visit malicious websites. It is strongly recommended to stay away from any programs that are related to advertisers and iToolbox Toolbar is one of them.

iToolbox Toolbar Distribution Methods

In case you are wondering how iToolbox Toolbar have infiltrated into your browser, this probably happened when you were downloading another freeware to your computer. As already mentioned, it comes bundled to free applications that can be downloaded from the Internet. It can also come bundled to various suspicious applications, including, SpeedChecker, Snap.Do, YTDownloader, etc. To avoid that, you have to be more careful with what you are installing to your system and remember that some programs may try to add additional applications to your computer. In order to see them, always go for a Custom or Advanced installation and follow every step very carefully. If you see any already selected options indicating about changing your homepage to some unknown website or offering to install an unknown program, always deselect them.

To remove iToolbox Toolbar, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs list and uninstall anything related to this domain from there. Some versions of this hijacker install software that blocks browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with , or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.