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Should I remove Doko Chrome Toolbar?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
82% remove it18% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Bad
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How common is it?
Global Rank #27,486
United States Rank #37,086
Reach 0.0058%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 9.49 days
280.00 days >
Average installed length: 147.12 days

Doko Chrome Toolbar

What is Doko Chrome Toolbar?

Doko Chrome Toolbar is a potentially unwanted web browser extension designed to take control of the user's browser in order to redirect web searches and inject advertising. In Internet Explorer the program run as a Browser Helper Object. The add-in performs a number of behaviors that will hijack advertising on non-associated web sites as well as inject its own advertising in the form of contextual link ads, banner ads, popups and pop-overs including the hijacking of known ad serving sites. This malware is typically bundled with various third party unwanted applications as well as through web browser exploits. Although the program comes packaged with an uninstaller and is listed in the Windows Add/Remove Programs, fully removing this could be very difficult and an anti-malware product might be required.

Overview

Upon installation, it defines an auto-start registry entry which allows the program run on each boot for the user which installed it. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The main program executable is BabMaint.exe. Typically most users end up uninstalling this just after a few days. The software installer includes 8 files and is usually about 1.25 MB (1,307,457 bytes).
  • Possible malware installed by this program
  • Automatically starts with Windows
  • Loads into the web browser
  • The experts agree, you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Doko Chrome Toolbar.
BabMaint.exe (f64487396ab10165dc80bc15cf854d31) has been flagged by the following 4 scanners:
Anti-Virus softwareVersionDetection
Comodo Security 16835 Application.Win32.Agent.~AS
Dr.Web 9.0.0.0240 Adware.Babylon.12
ESET-NOD32 7.8735 Win32/Toolbar.Babylon.I
Malwarebytes v2013.08.28.01 PUP.Optional.Babylon.A
NTRedirect.dll (a934ff2a498261ba8c18a7a5ce06cb05) has been flagged by the following 3 scanners:
Anti-Virus softwareSoftware versionDetection
AhnLab-V3 2013.12.13.00 Trojan/Win32.Agent
AVG 13.0.0.3169 Skodna.Generic.AMJ
Malwarebytes 1.75.0001 PUP.Optional.Babylon.A
enhancedNT.dll (4f507a8c6afb70c6fc1627dacc9f60e2) has been flagged by the following 2 scanners:
Anti-Virus softwareSoftware versionDetection
Comodo Security 17568 Application.Win32.Babylon.ad
ESET-NOD32 9258 a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Babylon.W
Bundled relationships
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Program detailsProgram details

Displayed publisher: Doko Toolbar
Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\babsolution\shared
Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\BabSolution\Shared\GUninstaller.exe" -key "Doko Chrome Toolbar" -rmkey -rmbus "Doko Chrome Toolbar" -ask -plgdll enhanc
Estimated size: 1.25 MB

Program filesFiles installed by Doko Chrome Toolbar

Program executable:BabMaint.exe (Malware detected)
Signed by:Babylon Ltd.
Path:C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\babsolution\shared\BabMaint.exe
MD5:f64487396ab10165dc80bc15cf854d31
Additional files:
  • GUninstaller.exe - Uninstaller (Uninstaller Application)
  • BUSolution.dll - BU Dynamic Link Library
  • (Malware detected) enhancedNT.dll - enhancedNT
  • (Malware detected) BabMaint.exe
  • (Malware detected) NTRedirect.dll
  • BUSUninstall.exe
  • sqlite3.dll

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Scheduled Task
  • BabMaint.exe is scheduled as a task named 'YTAUpdate' (runs daily at 8:00).
Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)
  • BabMaint.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named SBWUpdateTask_Logon_f61fb1a7-001E101FC20F.
2 Startup Files (User Run)
  • enhancedNT.dll is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'NTRedirect' and executes as C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\BabSolution\Shared\enhancedNT.dll",Run.
  • NTRedirect.dll is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'NTRedirect' and executes as C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\BabSolution\Shared\NTRedirect.dll",Run.

How do I remove Doko Chrome Toolbar?

You can uninstall Doko Chrome Toolbar from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program Doko Chrome Toolbar, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Doko Chrome Toolbar.
  4. If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.

How do I reset my web browser?

If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Doko Chrome Toolbar you can restore them to their previous default settings.
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OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 56%
Win Vista (SP1) 2%
 
WHEN IT STARTS
Auto-starting? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 82%
Keep it 18%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 65.79%
Windows 10 21.05%
Windows XP 8.77%
Windows Vista 4.39%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 36.84%
Windows 7 Ultimate 12.28%
Windows 7 Professional 10.53%
Microsoft Windows XP 8.77%
Windows 8 8.77%
Windows 8.1 5.26%

Distribution by countryGeography

24.58% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 24.58%
  Germany 12.71%
  France 11.02%
  United Kingdom 5.93%
  India 5.93%
  Poland 5.08%
  Netherlands 3.39%
  Finland 2.54%
  Italy 2.54%
  Mexico 2.54%
  Brazil 1.69%
  MA 1.69%
  Norway 1.69%
  PR 1.69%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 27.91%
Acer 19.77%
Dell 12.79%
ASUS 12.79%
Samsung 9.30%
Lenovo 9.30%
Intel 4.65%
Toshiba 2.33%
GIGABYTE 1.16%
Common models
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 3.19%
Dell Inspiron 1525 2.13%
Samsung 300E4A/300E5A/300... 2.13%
Acer Aspire 5750G 2.13%
Hewlett-Packard Presario ... 2.13%
TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO L77... 1.06%

About Babylon Ltd

Babylon is a computer dictionary and translation program, developed by Babylon Ltd., an Israeli public company.
Publisher URL: www.babylon.com

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