Help to get rid of the Iminent Virus

Anonymous
2013-05-13T07:52:32+00:00

My grandson has picked up the Iminent virus on his Toshiba laptop.

Have tried to uninstall without success

Have tried to do a restore, again without success

It has also affected the AVG on his system, tells us it is trying to uninstall but does not

Any help please

thanks

jw

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Anonymous
2014-02-02T23:53:29+00:00

And when running the Uninstaller doesn't work ( it still shows up in my system tray after uninstall) what can I do after that.

See:  http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-iminent-toolbar/

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Anonymous
2014-01-23T03:23:33+00:00

See the following free removal guide from Malwaretips:  http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-iminent-toolbar/

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-23T02:42:13+00:00

    Thank you I've done this and it gets rid of the "imminent" problem.  But when I reboot imminent comes back.  I also have ran regedit and removed "imminent" and "Favicon", but have to keep doing this.  Can you help with this?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-01T17:38:12+00:00

    I also had this problem, even after I'd deleted the add-on and deleted all traces of Iminent I could find on my computer. I still had problems with Iminent. I did some research and installed an app called 'Should I Remove It?'. By deleteting the search feature etc. with that I now have absolutely no trouble with Iminent. It is also good for deleting any other unwanted add-ons/progams. It's very simple to use and worked perfectly for me.

    Hope this helped someone

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-14T03:41:32+00:00

    Hi,

     

    My friend has a wins7/IE10 laptop and had chrome and IE installed. Iminent was also present.

     

    He uninstalled Chrome & since this, IE has stopped working and won't load. The error is consistently 'IE has stopped working'.

     

    When trying to uninstall the Iminent toolbar, from Programs & Features, this gives the error of "Iminent Bootstrapper has stopped working" and won't allow any changes.

     

    Have you any advice on what to do with this?

     

    Thanks

    I recommend posting your friend's issue to the Internet Explorer forum area.

    -steve

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