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

 Hi Gustav --

Yes, it's "annoyware", and I can't remember I have installed it any time intentionally - I have probably got it while installing some trial software.

Thank you.

-- Shamil


Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:06:02 +0000 from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>Hi Shamil
>
>No, AskSam is not truly malware, just "annoyware".
>
>/gustav
>
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> 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
>>
>>-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>>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 
>
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