How to Remove Bitlord Toolbar from Your Browsers

I found a toolbar called Bitlord on my Google Chrome this morning. I have never heard of such toolbar and installed it on my browser at all. Since this toolbar appeared on my browser, I have noticed some problems, for examples, there are lots of ads popping up on the webpage I am visiting and the network speed becomes slower than usual. I suspect that those problems occur mainly due to this unsolicited toolbar. Is the Bitlord Toolbarsafe? Will it pose a threat to my computer? How can I completely remove it from my browser?

Similar to Systweak Toolbar and Sweet Packs Toolbar, the Bitlord Toolbar is a browser toolbar for browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. However, it is not only a common toolbar providing users with the easy and quick search function, but also a tool used to collect users’ person information. Most of the time, this toolbar comes bundled with freeware or shareware and gets installed onto users’ browsers during the installation process of the freeware or shareware downloaded from unsafe sources. Certainly, this toolbar is not as malicious as Trojan horse which will badly damage users’ computer system and make it almost unusable; however, it really brings some trouble to users.

Once installed, the Bitlord Toolbar will make some changes to users’ Web browser settings, which causes various annoying problems. Numerous advertisements pop up on the affected Web browsers, which interrupt users’ activities and prevent them from using the browsers normally. This toolbar may also cause Web browser redirection – users’ browsers keep being redirected to some unknown websites when they search for something using the toolbar. Actually, the BitLord Toolbar is designed by cyber hackers with the intension of making great money by hijacking users’ search results to certain websites and further misleading them into buy certain products or services. Other than hijacking users’ browsers, this toolbar may also steal users’ personal information. It is reported that this toolbar has spyware capabilities which enable it to spy on users’ online activities and collect information about users’ online history and search habits. That information collected may be sold to some advertisers and it is no strange that you will receive a lot of pop-up ads that match your interests or habits. The Bitlord Toolbar may also cause the decrease of browsers performance and other unexpected issue. To fix all those problems, users should remove this toolbar as soon as possible.

Step-by-Step Guide to Remove Bitlord Toolbar

1. Remove the unwanted toolbar from the affected browsers.

Internet Explorer:
Launch the Internet Explorer browser.
Click “Tools”, select “Manage Add-ons”, and then click “Toolbars and Extensions”.
Find out the unwanted toolbar and disable it.
Restart the browser to complete the change.

Mozilla Firefox:
Launch the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Click “Tools” and select “Add-ons”.
Search for Bitlord Toolbar and remove/disable it.
Exit and restart the browser.

Google Chrome:
Launch the Google Chrome browser.
Click on the Wrench icon, select “Tools” and click “Extensions”.
Click “Extensions”, look for the unsolicited toolbar and delete it.
Restart your browser to make the change take effect.

2. Go to the Start menu, type “folder options” into the search bar and click on “Folder Options” from the result list. Select the tab of “View”, tick “Show hidden files, folders and drives”, non-tick the “Hide protecting operating system files (Recommended)” and click OK. This will show all hidden files and folders.

3. Navigate to the local disk C, search for and delete any files associated with Bitlord Toolbar.

%Program Files%\random.exe
%UserProfile%\Desktop\.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\random.exe

4. Click Start menu, in the search box, type “Reg” and click “Registry Editor” from the result list. When the Registry Editor is opened, please search for the registry entries related to the toolbar and delete them all.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM]”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”

Bitlord-Toolbar is not a safe browser toolbar. When it gets installed on users’ PCs, it can modify the browser settings, causing changes of the default homepage and search engine. Thus, it can keep redirecting users’ browsers to some specified websites. Moreover, this toolbar would cause users’ personal information theft. So, users should get rid of it as early as possible. If there is any difficulty in performing the manual removal task, users can also consider using a professional removal tool to easily and completely remove this unwelcome toolbar!