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
    2013-05-15T10:20:55+00:00

    many thanks  jw

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-05-13T13:05:46+00:00

    Removal Guide for Iminent Toolbar

    Windows Vista & Windows 7

    1. Open Start Menu
    2. Go to Control Panel.

    3.Click Uninstall a program

    1. Select Iminent and IMinent Toolbar
    2. Remove it.

    Windows XP

    1. Open Start Menu.
    2. Go to Control Panel
    3. Add or Remove Programs.
    4. Select Iminent and IMinent Toolbar
    5. Remove it.

    How to remove Iminent Toolbar from browser

    For Internet Explorer

    1. Press Alt+X
    2. Go to Manage add-ons.
    3. Remove IMinent Toolbar from Extensions.
    4. Exit Add-ons menu
    5. Press Alt+X again.
    6. Go to Internet Options.
    7. Under General tab delete search.iminent.com next to Home page section.
    8. Enter a home page address you like and click OK and exit the menu.
    9. Press Alt+X and Go back to Manage add-ons.
    10. Remove search.iminent.com from the Search Providers list.

    For Mozilla Firefox

    1. Press Ctrl+Shift+A.
    2. Disable and remove Iminent and IMinent toolbar from the Extensions list.
    3. Close the tab.
    4. Click Firefox button and go to Options.
    5. Under General tab, delete search.iminent.com.
    6. Enter a home page address you like and save changes. Exit the menu.
    7. Click the search bar at the top right corner and press F4.
    8. Select Manage search engines...
    9. Remove search.iminent.com from the list and save changes.

    Google Chrome

    1. Press Alt+F
    2. Go to Tools --> Extensions.
    3. Remove Iminent from the extensions list.
    4. Click Settings right below Extensions and press Set pages under "On startup".
    5. Remove search.iminent.com from the list.
    6. Enter the domain name you like and click OK.
    7. Back in Settings, click Manage search engines... under Search.
    8. Remove search.iminent.com from the search engine list.
    9. Enter the default search engine address you prefer and save changes

    This should solve the problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-13T11:06:36+00:00

    Iminent is Hijacker, comming from shareware/freeware applications. It is not detected by most of antivirus, though some anti-malware programs (spyhunter, spybotS&D and adwcleaner should detect it). 

    As it is not virus, one can uninstall it from control panel ( I recommend uninstalling it with other software installed at the same point , as it might return <removed>).

    Then reset your search engine and start page settings manually or with adwcleaner.

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