Remove PConverter B3 Toolbar from IE/Firefox/Chrome

How to Remove PConverter B3 Toolbar from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Do you want to get rid of PConverter B3 Toolbar from your browser and stop redirect problem? Here’s a guide to remove this annoying thing and fix your issue.

Introduction of PConverter B3 Toolbar

Originally PConverter B3 Toolbar is just programmed for usefully providing services which are related to advertisements, but now it is proven that PConverter B3 Toolbar has turned into a malicious ad-ware which has the ability to wreak great havocs on infected computers. It is well-known that computer users will probably become the victims of it while they are carelessly installing free applications from illegal sites or opening indiscriminative attachments from unknown senders.

After PConverter B3 Toolbar is added to stricken computers, it will directly perform its evil activities to intervene most users’ online activities. For instance, being malicious, PConverter B3 Toolbar will always display many commercial advertisements to network users in different ways. Commonly, it likes popping up all those advertisements, which makes most network users hard to take beforehand steps to stop those ads when searching or browsing. Also, PConverter B3 Toolbar will do great harms to users’ browsers too. It will disable some certain browser settings to pave the way for displaying numerous boring ads. As a consequence, your computer will gradually run tardily and weirdly. And some system functions may be unstable and even useless as well. You will not be happy to see these, so you have to completely remove PConverter B3 Toolbar from your stricken system with no mercy as soon as you detect it.

Major symptoms of PConverter B3 Toolbar

a.       The homepage is always redirected to other site.

b.      The search results on Google, Bring, or Yahoo are completely redirected to unwanted sites.

c.       The system settings are modified without permission.

d.      The system is blocked badly and runs slow.

e.       The browser is always hijacked.

Solution to uninstall PConverter B3 Toolbar efficiently

Commonly, this kind of adware can use rootkit technology to hide inside the system. So many antivirus programs cannot detect it and remove it completely. For this reason, you should carry out a manual removal. Please read the following guide carefully and remove PConverter B3 Toolbar right now.

Step one : make all vicious items disabled.

1.      Press Window+R at the same time, then type “msconfig” in the box of “Run” and click OK

2.      Select Startup and look for all malicious items that are related to PConverter B3 Toolbar, and stop them

Step two: Uninstall this program from Control Panel

For Win7 and Win Vista

Click Start menu, choose Control Panel, then double click Programs( and Features). Go to find out PConverter B3 Toolbar, and uninstall it.

For Win XP

Go to Start menu, Select “Settings”, and then go to Control Panel. After that, open “Add or Remove Programs”. In there, find out PConverter B3 Toolbar and remove it.

Step three: Get rid of extensions and add-ons and restore the browser

For Internet Explorer users

1.      Go to “Tools”

2.      Select Manage Add-ons

3.      Select “Search Providers”, then choose Google or Bring from the list to set it as your default search engine.

4.      Go to Tools, go to Internet Options. Then, click General tab to choose a website like Google.com and don’t forget to save the modifications by clicking OK.

For Google Chrome users

1.      Go to “Customize and control”>Settings

2.      Select “Basic Options”

3.      Set Google.com as your homepage, or you also can click “Manage Search Engines…”to select other website.

4.      Choose Google as your default search engine

5.      Select the “Search Result” and click “X” to remove it.

For Mozilla Firefox users

1.      Click magnifier, then select “Manage Search Engine…”

2.      Find out Search Result from that list and remove it, and then click OK.

3.      Go to “Tools”>click Options. Then, in General Tab, reset the homepage and search engine to your favorite site

Step four: Remove all files and registry entries related to PConverter B3 Toolbar

To open the Registry Editor, you can click start menu and click run. Then, type regedit in the box and click ok.

%AppData%\ PConverter\Data\PConverter Toolbar.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\redbook.sys(PConverter Toolbar)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[ PConverter B3 Toolbar].exe”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\[random numbers]

Attention: you need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result in other complicate system problems.