ChatVibes Toolbar Removal Guide

ChatVibes Toolbar is a suspicious browser extension which appears to represent the services of chatvibes.com and instead promotes the services and products of Conduit Ltd. The web page has been inactive for years, probably since 2011; however, you are offered to install a toolbar from chatvibescom.ourtoolbar.com. This page is managed by Conduit, a company which is infamous for recycling trusted software names to present alternative browser extensions which, in most cases, are useless and undesirable. A few other programs which have been created on the Conduit platform include ConnectSo Toolbar and Quizulous Toolbar. Even though these applications are meant to serve differently, our malware researchers have found out that you can get rid of them in the same way that you can delete ChatVibes Toolbar.

Most computer users choose to remove ChatVibes Toolbar soon after installing it is because this Chrome, IE and Firefox extension does not provide beneficial services. The toolbar displays a button leading to the inactive page chatvibes.com, a search button representing Conduit Search and easy-access links to various applications which are powered by Conduit as well. Some of these include Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Muziic Embeddable Player, PriceGong and Coupish. The latter two are meant to produce online coupons and saving deals; however, their services are highly suspicious. If you activate the services of these applications, there is a great chance that your virtual activity will be tracked. Unfortunately, in some unfortunate cases, this could lead to virtual data leaking and, eventually, to virtual identity theft.

If you initiate the installation of ChatVibes Toolbar, you need to be extra cautious about the additional software you might be offered to install. Fortunately, Conduit applications always offer a chance to accept of decline the presented applications. In the case of the toolbar, you will be offered to change the current home page of your web browser to search.conduit.com and the search provider to ChatVibes.com Customized Web Search. These search tools not only display sponsored search results. They also might redirect you to google.com/search and display a ton of suspicious banner advertisements promoting various services and tools, including Systweak’s RegClean Pro. Think before clicking on any ad or suspicious link because this could be a security backdoor.

What should you do if you no longer wish to run ChatVibes Toolbar and the affiliated search tools do not meet your standards? If this is the case – remove the undesirable software from your operating system right away. Follow the manual removal guides to delete the undesirable search tools and remove ChatVibes Toolbar. Then install automatic malware removal software to ensure that your virtual security is protected in the future.

Delete ChatVibes Toolbar and Conduit search tools

Delete from Windows XP:

1. Open the Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Double-click Add or Remove Programs.
3. Remove the undesirable application.

Delete from Windows Vista & Windows 7:

1. Click the icon on the left of the Task Bar to open the Start menu.
2. Open the Control Panel and then go to Uninstall a program.
3. Right-click the program you wish to delete and select Uninstall.

Delete from Windows 8:

1. Access the Metro UI menu (tap the Windows key) and right-click on the background.
2. Select All apps, click Control Panel and then Uninstall a program.
3. Find the application you wish to delete, right-click it and select Uninstall.

Delete from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open the browser and click the search provider icon on the search box (top-right corner of the page).
2. From the appeared menu select Manage Search Engines and locate the undesirable search provider.
3. Remove ChatVibes.com Customized Web Search and click OK.
4. Simultaneously tap Alt+T on the keyboard to open the Tools menu and select Options.
5. Click the General tab, overwrite/remove the Home Page URL and click OK.
6. Now simultaneously tap Ctrl+Shift+A to open the Add-ons Manager in the new tab.
7. Click Extensions, locate the undesirable plugin and click Remove.

Delete from Internet Explorer:

1. Open the browser, simultaneously tap Alt+T (Tools menu) and select Manage Add-ons.
2. From the menu on the left select Search Providers and Remove the undesirable search tool. Click Close.
3. Simultaneously tap Alt+T to open the Tools menu once more and click Internet Options.
4. Click the General tab, overwrite/remove the Home Page URL and click OK.

Delete from Google Chrome:

1. Open the browser, simultaneously tap Alt+F and select Settings.
2. Navigate to On Startup and mark Open a specific page or set of pages.
3. Click Set pages and overwrite/remove the undesirable search tool. Click OK.
4. Navigate to Appearance and mark Show Home button.
5. Click Change and overwrite/remove the URL representing the undesirable option. Click OK.
6. Navigate to Search, click Manage search engines and apply a new default search provider.
7. Click X on the URL of the set default search engine to remove it.
8. Move to the top-left of the page and select Extensions (menu on the left).
9. Click the recycle bin on the right of the undesirable plugin (ChatVibes Toolbar) and select Remove.