[dba-Tech] "Search App by Ask" Add-On - how to remove it from IE 11?

Hi Shamil

No, AskSam is not truly malware, just "annoyware".

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil
Sendt: 20. oktober 2014 11:59
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] "Search App by Ask" Add-On - how to remove it from IE 11?

 Hi Gustav --

:)

Yes, you're right. Thank you.
I somehow missed to go this simplest route first of all - I was confused by the way this add-in was installed and I thought its authors use some tricky ways to "deadly hook" to IE11.

-- Shamil


Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:18:00 +0000 from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>Hi Shamil
>
>I think you need to go to Control Panel, Programs and there run the uninstall.
>
>/gustav
>
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>Fra:  dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil
>Sendt: 20. oktober 2014 11:13
>Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Emne: [dba-Tech] "Search App by Ask" Add-On - how to remove it from IE 11?
>
> Hi All --
>
>I have somehow got the subject add-on. 
>
>I have got it disabled but totally removing it from IE 11 seems to be a tricky procedure, which isn't available from IE11's "Tools -> Manage Add-Ons" entry.
>
>I have started IE 11 via command line:
>
>iexplore.exe -extoff
>
>and I have gone directly to "Manage Add-On". Still no way to remove the subject add-on.
>
>Could you please advise how to remove it?
>
>Thank you.
>
>-- 
>Салахетдинов Шамиль