Should I remove The Canasta Brats Toolbar?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

84% remove it16% keep it

Overall Sentiment

Bad

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How common is it?

Reach <0.001%

Versions

Version	Distribution
6.13.3.1	100.00%

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The Canasta Brats Toolbar

from Conduit Ltd.

Remove The Canasta Brats Toolbar by Conduit

What is The Canasta Brats Toolbar?

Installs a Conduit powered OurToolbar in Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox web browsers. The software collects and stores information about your web browsing and sends this information to OurToolbar so they can suggest services or provide ads via the toolbar. The toolbar will attempt to change your home page and search provider if you are not careful during installation and provides a search box and various other generic features in the toolbar. The toolbar is typically bundled with the free a program as an option during installation and does not necessarily get uninstalled when the host program is removed from the user's PC. If the home page and search settings were modified by this toolbar, they need to be manually reverted back by the user.

About (from Conduit)

As part of the installation process of the Conduit Software and/or the Customized Software, you may be changing your Internet Browser settings and/or have the ability to opt to make changes to your Internet Browser settings and/or your mobile device settings and/or your social network account settings. By Using the Con... Read more

Overview

Malware detected in the program
Integrates into the web browser
Built on and distributed using the Conduit toolbar
Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
Hijacks the web browser's home page
Hijacks the browser's default search provider
Most users and experts agree, you should remove it!

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in The Canasta Brats Toolbar.

tbThe_.dll (5d80adbf9bcb50c9b488cced7f6525e1) has been flagged by the following 3 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
ESET-NOD32	8.9314	a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Conduit.B
Panda Antivirus	14.01.26.11	Adware/Conduit
VIPRE Antivirus	25628	Conduit (fs)
prxtbThe_.dll (d0133250565180c9dc8ee0aecccbfd53) has been flagged by the following 12 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Software version	Detection
Antiy-AVL	1.0.0.1	GrayWare[WebToolbar:not-a-virus]/Win32.Agent.azm
AVware	1.5.0.21	Conduit (fs)
Baidu-International	3.5.1.41473	Adware.Win32.Conduit.M
Cyren	5.4.16.7	W32/Conduit.TTAU-0102
ESET-NOD32	11248	Win32/Toolbar.Conduit.N potentially unwanted
F-Prot	4.7.1.166	W32/Conduit.A
G Data	25	Win32.Application.Conduit.F
K7 AntiVirus	9.199.15118	Trojan ( 004b219d1 )
K7GW	9.199.15118	Trojan ( 004b219d1 )
Kaspersky	15.0.1.10	not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32.Agent.azm
Panda Antivirus	4.6.4.2	PUP/Conduit.A
VIPRE Antivirus	37998	Conduit (fs)
The_Canasta_BratsToolbarHelper.exe (943f313974a830d4634c73beb8103f5e) has been flagged by the following 4 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Software version	Detection
Comodo Security	17313	Application.Win32.Conduit.~f
Dr.Web		Adware.Toolbar.202
Malwarebytes	1.75.0.1	PUP.Optional.Conduit.A
VIPRE Antivirus	23610	Conduit (fs)
uninstall.exe (b728fa6a309e5d18141947b95b730e95) has been flagged by the following 2 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Software version	Detection
Panda Antivirus	10.0.3.5	PUP/Conduit.A
VIPRE Antivirus	26380	Conduit (fs)

View all 21 all detections

The Canasta Brats Toolbar has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this, you should be safe uninstalling it.

Program details

Displayed publisher: The Canasta Brats

URL: TheCanastaBrats.OurToolbar.com

Help link: TheCanastaBrats.OurToolbar.com/help

Installation folder: C:\Program Files\the_canasta_brats

Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\The_Canasta_Brats\uninstall.exe toolbar

Estimated size: 7.82 MB

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 TheCanastaBrats.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 The Canasta Brats Toolbar

Program module:	tbThe_.dll (Malware detected)
Name:	Conduit Toolbar
Path:	C:\Program Files\the_canasta_brats\tbThe_.dll
MD5:	5d80adbf9bcb50c9b488cced7f6525e1

Additional files:

(Malware detected) The_Canasta_BratsToolbarHelper.exe - ToolbarHelper Application
(Malware detected) uninstall.exe - Conduit Toolbar Uninstall
hk64tbThe_.dll - Conduit Toolbar
hktbThe_.dll
ldrtbThe_.dll
(Malware detected) prxtbThe_.dll
(Malware detected) tbThe_.dll

Behaviors exhibited

Internet Explorer BHO

prxtbThe_.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'DivX Browser Bar DE Toolbar' with the class of {6dad39c6-f4ac-4984-8e9b-f666269b9eb1} (DivX Browser Bar DE).

Internet Explorer Toolbar

prxtbThe_.dll is loaded as Internet Explorer Toolbar with the name 'SearchFlyBar3 Toolbar' with the class of {489d3a56-53d9-44c2-a113-5820cdab4206}.

Internet Explorer URL Search Hook

prxtbThe_.dll loads into IE as a URL Search Hook named 'BittorrentBar_DE Toolbar' with a class of {64ead72b-ffd4-4e01-aa3a-4c71665d73e4} in order to redirect unknown URL searches.

Internet Explorer Web Browser

prxtbThe_.dll installs an IE Web Browser in Internet Explorer named 'VisualBee V.1 Toolbar' with a class of {7AEAE561-714B-45F6-ACE3-4A8AED6E227B}.

Scheduled Task

uninstall.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{C247631C-606C-44F8-9B4E-C25B77177427}' (runs on registration).

Windows Firewall Allowed Program

The_Canasta_BratsToolbarHelper.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\eTvOnline.ro\eTvOnline.roToolbarHelper.exe'.

How do I remove The Canasta Brats Toolbar?

You can uninstall The Canasta Brats 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 The Canasta Brats 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 The Canasta Brats 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.

How do I reset my web browser?

If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by The Canasta Brats Toolbar you can restore them to their previous default settings.

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