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Lost Toolbar and can't get it back.

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I lost my toolbar for mozilla firefox and I can't get it back. since then I have been attacked by all kinds of virus's. What went wrong?

I lost my toolbar for mozilla firefox and I can't get it back. since then I have been attacked by all kinds of virus's. What went wrong?

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What toolbar?

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You can check for recently installed suspicious or unknown extensions.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window

Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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Some added toolbar and anti-virus add-ons are known to cause Firefox issues. Disable All of them.