Affinity Adware Removal Guide

Affinity Toolbar is the newest application created on the Conduit platform, and hundreds of Windows users have already downloaded it onto their computers. Even though the plugin has an official download page (affinity.ourtoolbar.com) it possible that you will be offered to install it onto your browsers with other software. Therefore, if you have discovered the plugin installed without your notice, you need to consider that it has traveled bundled with the recently installed applications. If the program is undesirable or you have discovered certain security risks involved, we recommend having Affinity Toolbar deleted from the Windows operating system.

As our researchers have discovered, Affinity Toolbar comes bundled with the Trovi search, which is better known as the Conduit search. In order to install these search tools onto Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers you are supposed to mark certain boxes during the installation of the toolbar. If you skip this step, you will not have search.conduit.com set as the Home Page of your web browser. This is something we recommend because the search tool is not the most reliable one. It is supported by third party advertisers, and so you may find sponsored search results dominating the links which could route you to sites related to your search queries.

All Conduit Ltd applications, including Softtunes Toolbar, Freshy Toolbar or Bitlord Toolbar, promote the suspicious Conduit search tools. In fact, there is a possibility that this is the main reason why the toolbars are created in the first place. Note that if you click on the sponsored search results and the displayed online advertisements, the developers of Affinity Toolbar could generate profit. Needless to say, this is not the activity you may want to support. If you are looking for an authentic, useful toolbar and reliable search tools, we suggest you remove Affinity Toolbar first.

Even if you have no experience with the removal of undesirable computer applications, you can delete Affinity Toolbar successfully. All you have to do is follow the manual removal instructions presented below. If the toolbar came bundled with other suspicious applications, you should follow the guides and then you should install automatic malware detection and removal software. Authentic security tools, like SpyHunter, will help you delete any unreliable programs and will help you defend the operating system against those threats which could attack in the near future.

Remove the undesirable toolbar

Remove from Windows XP:

1. Click Start on the Task Bar and select Control Panel.
2. Double-click Add or Remove Programs and then Change and Remove Programs.
3. Remove the undesirable computer application.

Remove from Windows Vista & Windows 7:

1. Open the Start menu from the Task Bar and select Control Panel.
2. Go to Uninstall a program and right-click the program you want to delete.
3. Select Uninstall.

Remove from Windows 8:

1. Tap the Windows key to access the Metro UI menu and right-click.
2. Select All apps, click Control Panel and then Uninstall a program.
3. Right-click the program you want to delete and click Uninstall.

Delete the undesirable search tools

Delete from Internet Explorer:

1. Open the browser, simultaneously tap Alt+T and click Manage Add-ons.
2. From the list on the left select Search Providers and select a new default provider.
3. Click the undesirable search engine, select Remove and then Close.
4. Tap Alt+T again and this time select Internet Options.
5. Click the General tab and change/remove the Home Page. Click OK.

Delete from Google Chrome:

1. Open the browser, simultaneously tap Alt+F and click Settings.
2. Under On Startup mark Open a specific page or set of pages and click Set pages.
3. Change/remove the URL representing the undesirable search engine and click OK.
4. Under Appearance mark Show Home button and click Change.
5. Repeat step 3 to remove the undesirable options.
6. Under Search click Manage search engines and select a new default search provider.
7. Click X on the undesirable URL to remove it from the list and hit Done.

Delete from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open the browser, simultaneously tap Alt+T and click Options.
2. Click the General tab and change/remove the Home Page. Click OK.
3. Navigate to the search box on the right and click the search provider icon.
4. Select Manage Search Engines and Remove the undesirable option. Click OK.