What is Yandex Toolbar?

Yandex Toolbar is a one of the hundreds of toolbars. Vendors of this toolbar report that they made this toolbar for people to make their internet browsing faster and more convenient. This program can be installed in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera Browser. So, these are browsers that can be the victims of Yandex Toolbar. You can find different information about this toolbar. Some sources tell that Yandex Toolbar is just an ordinary toolbar that helped users to browse on the Web. But there are also users that are sure that Yandex Toolbar is a malicious program that is able to install itself without user’s participation. If this case is like your own, then it is better to uninstall Yandex Toolbar.

How is Yandex Toolbar installed on your PC?

Also there such cases, when users download different freeware and install them on their computer together with some other programs and toolbars as a make-weight. It is sufficient for user to remove the tick from the “Install Yandex Toolbar” checkbox. But sometimes they just do not notice this tick and then complain that the toolbar installed itself on their computer. From this point, we can think that Yandex Toolbar is not a malicious program. Every user should be careful with all freeware and shareware or even should not use it at all for the sake of computer health.

How to remove Yandex Toolbar from your PC?

If you want to divest your computer of it, you will need to follow these steps. Please follow them carefully, as if you miss something, the Yandex Toolbar and search will not be completely removed. The program does not contain any uninstall program so the only way is to delete it manually.

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You can try both of these products to remove Yandex Toolbar

Or uninstall Yandex Toolbar manually:

Uninstalling from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Yandex Toolbar.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Yandex Toolbar and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Yandex Toolbar, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

After that remove Yandex Toolbar from your browser.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Type chrome://extensions/.
3. Find Yandex Toolbar.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove it.
5. Also look for other suspicious extensions.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Type about:addons.
3. Go to Extensions.
4. Choose Yandex Toolbar.
5. Click Disable or Remove button.
6. If remove button is not available – use one of the antispyware products above.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Yandex Toolbar.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – use one of the antispyware products above.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Remove following registry entries:

Key: SoftwareClassesCLSID{91397D20-1446-11D4-8AF4-0040CA1127B6}
Value: AppID
Key: SOFTWAREYandexYandex.ToolbarExtensions{4EC3C3A2-C547-11D5-B060-444553540000}
Key: SOFTWAREYandexYandex.ToolbarExtensions{5BAF48F9-1F31-440a-A7A9-FF35D6320C9D}
Key: SOFTWAREYandexYandex.ToolbarExtensions{5D4315B0-DF4F-11d5-8B93-0040CA1127B6}
Value: m0
Key: SOFTWAREYandexYandex.ToolbarExtensions{66CE3A80-3350-11d6-B673-0050BF6747F7}
Key: CLSID{5D4315B0-DF4F-11d5-8B93-0040CA1127B6}
Key: CLSID{5D4315B0-DF4F-11d5-8B93-0040CA1127B6}InprocServer32
Value: ThreadingModel

Then remove following files:

yndbar[1].cab
dynmenud.bmp
dynmenu.bmp
yndbard.bmp
yndbar.bmp
desk1.xml
menu2.xml
menu1.xml
yndbar.inf

And these folders

C:Program FilesYandex

Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
5. Click Reset browser settings.
6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Go to Help.
3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Internet options.
4. Go to Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

There are also some other methods how to remove toolbars from web browsers, so if the instructions given above were not useful for you or you think that they are too hard to perform then you are welcome to use any of the uninstallers that are available to you. You have the opportunity to download the Free Uninstall It program that was made to uninstall the unwanted programs that cannot be removed with the help of usual instructions. You should just download it and install on your computer. Free uninstall It will remove all the parts of the unwanted program in several minutes.

Information provided by: Alexey Abalmasov