What is Tuvaro Toolbar?

Being a part of a browser, Tuvaro Toolbar changes its homepage, and search engine so that it will be very difficult to change them back when the toolbar is installed. Tuvaro Toolbar is a very annoying program that will show different advertisements and commercial links instead of the real search results. Not every link that is shown by Tuvaro Toolbar is safe, so if you are going to keep your computer safe, then it is better to uninstall Tuvaro Toolbar as soon as possible. To the common symptoms of the infection I can refer the redirection of the default search engine, change of the browser homepage (without any reasons) and sometimes the background image. Also you can notice the slowdown of the computer performance when you open programs, start up or shut down the infected PC, use Internet.

How is Tuvaro Toolbar installed on your PC?

Tuvaro Toolbar is a browser add-on that can be installed on your computer together with any freeware, downloaded from the web. If you will not remove the tick that is responsible for the Tuvaro Toolbar during the freeware installation, then you will have this toolbar in your browser and ask himself why the toolbar is installed. If you want to make your computer work faster, then you are welcome to uninstall Tuvaro Toolbar.

How to remove Tuvaro Toolbar from your PC?

It impossible to change the default setting of your browser, if the toolbar is installed, because it will change them back after every computer startup. It is very annoying when you are forced to use the search engine and the home page that you do not want to use. The only action that you can do to change the situation is to remove Tuvaro Toolbar with its search and homepage settings. To remove Tuvaro Toolbar first uninstall it from Control Panel, then delete files and regkeys and reset browser settings. The pop-ups of the Tuvaro Toolbar are rather annoying and they can prevent you from normal work with your computer. If you want to use your computer as you want and keep it safe, then you should use the instructions from this page in order to uninstall Tuvaro Toolbar.

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You can try both of these products to remove Tuvaro Toolbar

Or uninstall Tuvaro Toolbar manually:

Uninstalling from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Tuvaro 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 Tuvaro 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 Tuvaro Toolbar, select it and click Uninstall.

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

After that remove Tuvaro Toolbar from your browser.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Type chrome://extensions/.
3. Find Tuvaro 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 Tuvaro 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 Tuvaro 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:

HKCUSoftwaretuvaroToolbar
HKCUSoftwaretuvaro
HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallTuvaro toolbar
HKCUSoftwareGoogleChromeExtensionsomgjkafaoidbgamjoklhaiiciahohkbh
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects{5CB02877-EFBC-4317-B608-9E24B11BAB40}
HKLMSOFTWAREClassestuvaro.tuvarodskBnd
HKLMSOFTWAREClassestuvaro.tuvaroHlpr
HKLMSOFTWAREClassest
HKLMSOFTWAREClassestuvaro.tuvaroappCore
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesesrv.tuvaroESrvc
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesAppIDesrv.EXE
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesescort.escortIEPane
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesAppIDescorTlbr.DLL
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesAppIDescortEng.DLL
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesAppIDescortApp.DLL
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesAppIDescort.DLL

Then remove following files:

tuvaro.dll
mgc.dll
tuvaroApp.dll
tuvaroEng.dll
tuvarosrv.exe
tuvaroTlbr.dll
uninstall.exe
tuvaro.crx
tuvaro.exe
tuvaro4ie.exe
tuvaro_uninst.exe

And these folders

%PROGRAMFILES%tuvaro
%LOCAL_APPDATA%GoogleChromeUser DataDefaultExtensionsomgjkafaoidbgamjoklhaiiciahohkbh
%LOCAL_APPDATA%tuvaro
%LOCAL_APPDATA%tuvarotuvaroApplication1.8.16.19ffxtlbr@tuvaro.com
%LOCAL_APPDATA%mgcapp
%LOCAL_APPDATA%mntr
%APPDATA%tuvaro
%APPDATA%MozillaFirefoxProfiles8j22kq5f.defaultextensionsffxtlbr@tuvaro.com

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.

Written by Aleksei Abalmasov