Remove Keybar 1.8—Pemanently Get Rid of Toolbar Virus

Complaints about Keybar 1.8 toolbar:

My roommate somehow downloaded this Keybar 1.8 Toolbar on my computer a few days ago while downloading Skype and I uninstalled it from the Control Panel but it didn't go away. I installed it again and uninstalled it, restarted the laptop and it's still there. However it's not in the Control Panel. There's no record of it being there, even though the Toolbar is on every page and makes the pages load very slowly. How do I remove it? 

How harmful Keybar 1.8 is?

To trick inexperienced computer users to install this program, KeyBar 1.8 Toolbar claims to give user easy access to online services such as Radio, Maps, Weather, World Clock, Social Networks, Coupons, and many other features, and offers instant search that is promoted as fast and efficient.

If you consider KeyBar 1.8 Toolbar as programs without malignant and keep it leaving on the system, you will feel regret after suffering a couple of issues arisen by this notorious computer infection.

Once gets into the target computer, usually KeyBar 1.8 Toolbar will add itself to known Internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox and cause many computer issues. 

In order to run freely in the infected PC, KeyBar 1.8 Toolbar will change some browser settings, for instance alter the homepage and modify the default search engine. And it also brings many annoying popup ads on the screen which disturbs the normal visiting actions, and these ads always have relationship with third parties who want to promote their products and persuade innocent victims to download these sponsor programs.

As this KeyBar 1.8 Toolbar always runs in the background and eats up a lot of PC sources which may cause a poor running speed and windows freeze. How angry you may be if the windows get freeze when you are playing computer games or watch broadcast live. If you leave this toolbar virus in your PC any longer, system crash may be the final result.

How does keybar 1.8 get into my PC?

Besides display fake advertisements in its official web page to trick computer users, keybar 1.8 can infiltrates into the target PC via other ways. When PC users accidentally open a hacked or fishy site, download malicious programs or spam attachments, more or less, they have helped keybar 1.8 toolbar virus get installed on the machines without any knowledge as this tricky compute virus always bundle its active code with these stuffs.

The screenshot of Keybar 1.8 virus:

Method one: Keybar 1.8 toolbar manual removal instruction

1: Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Task Manager. Click on the Processes tab, and search for Keybar 1.8 toolbar process, then click End Process key.

2: Uninstall Keybar 1.8 toolbar from infected PC
Guide: click on Start button and open Control Panel, choose uninstall a program and remove Keybar 1.8 toolbar from infected computer.

3. delete keybar1.8 toolbar from browser (take Mozilla Firefox browser for example).

a) click on "Tools" menu option, select "Add-ons"

b) click on "Extensions" tab on the "Add-ons" window, find "keybar1.8 toolbar"; click "Uninstall" button to begin

c) when you are notified that keybar1.8 toolbar is successfully uninstalled, click restart Firefox as requested.

Step 4. Remove any suspicious files.
Guide: open Folder Options by clicking on Control Panel, and then clicking Appearance and Personalization. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Remove all the suspicious files created by Keybar 1.8 toolbar
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
%Profile%\LocalSettings\Temp\
%ProgramFiles%

Step 5: Delete all of the following registries that added by Keybar 1.8 toolbar
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\webbrowser
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\“UninstallString” = “‘%AppData%\[RANDOM]\[RANDOM].exe” -u

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove Keybar 1.8 with Spyhunter antivirus software:

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and uninstall Keybar 1.8

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of Keybar 1.8, you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries from the system files and registries. If you have spend too much time in manual removing Keybar 1.8 and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove Keybar 1.8 automatically for you.