Should I remove Tika Chrome Toolbar?

Lifespan of installation (until removal)

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Remove Tika Chrome Toolbar by Babylon Ltd

Babylon's Tika Toolbar is a potentially unwanted ad-supported (adware) toolbar and web browser extension that will hijack the user's browser search page and provider in order to redirect searches to www.tika-search.com. This version installs a Google Chrome extension so that it can run in the background of Google's web browser and provide search redirection as well as including additional advertisements. Note, Montiera Technologies also makes an Internet Explorer version of this toolbar.

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 6 files and is usually about 1.25 MB (1,307,358 bytes).

Displayed publisher: Tika Toolbar

URL: www.tika-search.com

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\babsolution\shared

Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\BabSolution\Shared\GUninstaller.exe" -key "Tika Chrome Toolbar" -rmkey -rmbus "Tika Chrome Toolbar" -ask -plgdll enhanc

Estimated size: 1.25 MB

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 Tika 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 Tika 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.

1. Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset. Select the Delete personal settings check box if you would also like to remove search providers, Accelerators and home pages. When Internet Explorer finishes applying default settings, click Close, and then click OK.
3. The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
2. To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
3. When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.

1. Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings. In the "Search" section, click Manage search engine. Check if (Default) is displayed next to your preferred search engine. If not, mouse over it and click Make default. Mouse over any other suspicious search engine entries that are not familiar and click X to remove them.
3. When the "Show Home button" checkbox is selected, a web address appears below it. If you want the Homepage button to open up a different webpage, click Change to enter a link.
4. Restart Google Chrome.

OS VERSIONS Win 7 (SP1) 64% Win XP 4%

WHEN IT STARTS Auto-starting? Yes (Found in the run registry)

USER ACTIONS Uninstall it 79% Keep it 21%

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?

United States	57.50%
France	10.00%
Brazil	7.50%
Italy	5.00%
South Africa	2.50%
Belgium	2.50%
Mexico	2.50%
Spain	2.50%
Estonia	2.50%
Netherlands	2.50%
DK	2.50%
United Kingdom	2.50%

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?

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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