Should I remove Protelecinco Toolbar?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

74% remove it26% keep it

Overall Sentiment

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How common is it?

Reach <0.001%

Versions

Version	Distribution
5.7.0.17	100.00%

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Protelecinco Toolbar

from Conduit Ltd.

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What is Protelecinco Toolbar?

Protelecinco Toolbar is a Conduit web browser plugin for Intenet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox that collects and stores information about a user's web browsing habits and sends this information to Conduit in order to provide advertising. It will change the user's home page and search provider during installation (optional but enabled by default) and provides a search box and various social features. If the home page and search settings were modified by this toolbar, they need to be manually reverted back by the user if the user decides to uninstall the toolbar. According to the License Agreement, "The Application may also collect and store information about your web browsing locally on your device. This locally saved information may interact with the Application and send us information about your web browsing so we can suggest services or provide you ads that may be more relevant to you. Only generalized inferences are passed from the Application to our servers."

About (from Conduit)

This community toolbar was created using the Conduit platform. Get our freshest content delivered directly to your browser, no matter where you are on the Web. Search the Web and get a wide choice of useful search engines. Choose from thousands of free apps for your browser. Receive our most important news and announce... Read more

Overview

Possible malware installed by this program
Loads into the web browser
Built on and distributed using the Conduit toolbar
Installs a Windows Service
Hijacks the web browser's home page
Hijacks the browser's default search provider
The wisdom of the crowd agrees, you should remove it!

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Protelecinco Toolbar.

ProtelecincoToolbarHelper.exe (a320df2b47cfcaf98d06eb59cd72084c) has been flagged by the following 5 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Bkav FE	1.3.0.6379	W32.HfsAdware
Dr.Web	9.0.0.0103	Adware.Conduit.300
G Data	14.11.25	Win32.Adware.Conduit
IKARUS anti.virus	t3scan.1.6.1.0	PUA.ClientConnect
Panda Antivirus	14.01.11.10	PUP/Conduit.A

Program details

Displayed publisher: Protelecinco

URL: Protelecinco.OurToolbar.com

Help link: Protelecinco.OurToolbar.com/help

Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Protelecinco

Uninstaller: C:\Program Files1\PROTEL~1\UNWISE.EXE /U C:\Program Files1\PROTEL~1\INSTALL.LOG

(Wise Installer is used for installing and uninstalling this software.)

This is a Community Toolbar by Conduit, what does that mean?

Conduit is a toolbar monetization platform for software publishers. It provides a utility for developers to create branded generic web browser toolbars. Publishers can bundle these toolbars with their software programs or provide access to download them separately through Protelecinco.OurToolbar.com. Once installed, the toolbar modifies the browser's home page and search settings in order to redirect searches through the Conduit portal (which utilizes Bing or Yahoo! Search engines). Read more...

Files installed by Protelecinco Toolbar

Program executable:	ProtelecincoToolbarHelper.exe (Malware detected)
Path:	C:\Program Files\Protelecinco\ProtelecincoToolbarHelper.exe
MD5:	a320df2b47cfcaf98d06eb59cd72084c

Additional files:

tbProt.dll - Conduit Toolbar
(Malware detected) ProtelecincoToolbarHelper.exe
UNWISE.EXE

Behaviors exhibited

Internet Explorer BHO

tbProt.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Vuze Remote Toolbar' with the class of {ba14329e-9550-4989-b3f2-9732e92d17cc}.

Internet Explorer Toolbar

tbProt.dll is loaded as Internet Explorer Toolbar with the name 'Vuze Remote Toolbar' with the class of {ba14329e-9550-4989-b3f2-9732e92d17cc}.

Internet Explorer URL Search Hook

tbProt.dll loads into IE as a URL Search Hook named 'Vuze Remote Toolbar' with a class of {ba14329e-9550-4989-b3f2-9732e92d17cc} in order to redirect unknown URL searches.

Internet Explorer Web Browser

tbProt.dll installs an IE Web Browser in Internet Explorer named 'Vuze Remote Toolbar' with a class of {BA14329E-9550-4989-B3F2-9732E92D17CC}.

2 Scheduled Tasks

UNWISE.EXE is scheduled as a task with the class '{F71A9918-1861-4EFE-AE94-530BDDE46DD4}' (runs on registration).
ProtelecincoToolbarHelper.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{B8E8E278-F25D-478A-BAB2-24A5EDB01F6C}' (runs on registration).

Service

UNWISE.EXE runs as a service named 'Browser System Enahncer' (671c50b0).

Windows Firewall Allowed Program

UNWISE.EXE is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\UNWISE.EXE'.

How do I remove Protelecinco Toolbar?

You can uninstall Protelecinco Toolbar from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.

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.

When you find the program Protelecinco 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).

Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Protelecinco Toolbar.
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.