Iminent Toolbar Removal Guide

Iminent Toolbar is a browser plugin that adds an additional toolbar on your browser. If you have this toolbar installed, you will see that you can choose from a number of emoticons to add to your chats and messages on various websites, including Facebook and other social networks. As you can probably tell, Iminent Toolbar is not a virus, because there is nothing wrong with adding emoticons to your chats and messages. Nevertheless, some users express their wish to remove Iminent Toolbar from their computers, because it happens to be a potentially unwanted application.

This browser extension is a potentially unwanted application, because of its intrusive behavior. Even though this Iminent Toolbar can be downloaded at iminent.ourtoolbar.com, quite often users install this add-on when they download and open zip folders with freeware. Bundle downloads are a common mean of distribution not only for Iminent Toolbar, but for a number of other browser extensions as well. Therefore, you have to be careful about what kind of software you download and install on your computer. You can never know when a third party might exploit Iminent Toolbar to distribute malware.

The good thing about Iminent Toolbar is that you can easily uninstall it manually. You can do that via Control Panel, and then you need to remove it from your Internet browser as well. If you have never been introduced to your general Internet browser settings, and you do not know how to restore them, follow the instructions below:

Remove Iminent Toolbar from Windows

Windows Vista & Windows 7

1. Go to Start Menu –> Control Panel –> Uninstall a program.
2. Click Iminent and IMinent Toolbar and uninstall it.

Windows XP

1. Go to Start Menu –> Control Panel –> Add or Remove Programs.
2. Click Iminent and IMinent Toolbar and uninstall it.

Windows 8

1. Move your mouse cursor to the bottom left corner of the screen.
2. Right-click the mini screen.
3. Select Control Panel.
4. Go to Uninstall a program.
5. Click Iminent and IMinent toolbar and uninstall it.

Remove Iminent Toolbar from your browser

Internet Explorer

1. Press Alt+T and to go Manage add-ons.
2. Remove all add-ons related to Iminent from the Toolbars and Extensions list. Exit the menu.
3. Press Alt+X and go to Internet Options.
4. Under General tab delete search.iminent.com next to Home page section.
5. Enter another home page address click OK. Exit the menu.
6. Press Alt+X and click Manage add-ons.
7. Remove search.iminent.com from the Search Providers list.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Pres Ctrl+Shift+A together.
2. Remove IMinent Toolbar from Extensions list. Close the tab.
3. Click Firefox button and go to Options.
4. Under General tab, delete search.iminent.com from home page section.
5. Enter another home page address and save changes. Exit the menu.
6. Click the search bar at the top right corner and press F4.
7. Click Manage search engines…
8. 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 below Extensions and click Set pages under “On startup“.
5. Remove search.iminent.com.
6. Enter another domain name and click OK.
7. At Settings, click Manage search engines… under Search.
8. Remove search.iminent.com from the list.
9. Enter the default search engine address and save changes.

To make sure that no malicious files remain in your system, you are strongly advised to perform a full system scan with the free SpyHunter scanner available for download below. Should you have any questions regarding Iminent Toolbar, leave a comment below.