How to Get Rid of Message Viewer Toolbar (Useful Guide)

Wonder when and how Message Viewer Toolbar gets installed on your computer without your knowledge? Are you annoyed by this unsolicited toolbar and want to remove it instantly? Why not continue reading to find out the effective way to get rid of Message Viewer Toolbar?

Know about the Toolbar

Message Viewer Toolbar usually appears as a browser add-on that helps improve users’ browsing experience. However, it is deemed as an adware and a browser hijacker, in that it often attaches to users’ Web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox without any consent, keeps showing users many annoying pop-up ads and redirects users’ search results to some unwanted websites. This toolbar is not technically a virus but it shares some capabilities and traits with virus. Most of time, users do not know how and when this toolbar gets installed on their Web browsers. Unlike Google Toolbar, which will ask for your approval before getting installed on your browsers, this toolbar often gets into users’ computers in an aggressive way. And this is why so many users want to remove it quickly.

Generally, Message Viewer Toolbar can be installed together with free software downloaded from the Internet, for examples, audio players, PDF creators, Decoders and so on. Most users may not read carefully the Terms and Agreements before installing the free software on their computers, and this always gives the toolbar a chance to get installed on the targeted computers. This toolbar can also slip into users’ computers through spam email attachments, suspicious links, and hacked websites. Anyway, it can find its way to slip into the targeted computers. Once installed on your computer, it can control all your internet browsers. It changes the default browser default homepage and sets the default search engine to MessageViewer 1 Customized Web Search, so that it can what will be shown to you when you do some searching using the new search engine. Soon after the infection, you may notice that you are always redirected to some unknown websites and frequently disturbed by a bunch of pop-up ads. You may not know that Message Viewer Toolbar has the capability of tracing user’s browsing history and search habits and then sending to the remote hackers, which could lead to identify theft and money loss. It is urgent that you remove this unwelcome toolbar right away.

Manual Removal Guide:

Note: This manual removal guide is only for advanced computer users. If you are not skillful at computer operation, please completely get rid of the toolbar by using an automatic removal tool. It is much easier, safer and more effective to automatically remove the toolbar from your machine.

Step 1: Delete Temporary Internet Files. Open the Control Panel and click on the Internet Options category. Once the Internet Properties window pop ups, click on the “General” tab. Check the box that says “Delete browsing history on exit”. Next, tick “Temporary Internet files” and “History” and then click “Delete”.


Step 2: Remove programs related to Message Viewer Toolbar. Click Start menu and go to Control Panel. Click on “Add/Remove Programs” (Windows XP) or “Uninstall a program” (Windows 7). Then, look for any suspicious programs and remove them from your computer.

Step 3: Show all hidden files and folders.Double click on the Computer icon on the desktop. Click the Tools menu and select Folder options. Click the View tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders”, non-tick “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”, and click OK.


Step 4：Delete malicious files associated with Message Viewer Toolbar. Navigate to the local hard disk C, look for and delete the files related to the toolbar.

%Temp%\[random].bat
%AllUsersProfile%\[random].exe
%System%\[random].exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe

Step 5: Delete malicious registry entries. Press Windows Key + R key to open the Run command box. Type “regedit” into the Open field and press Enter. When the Registry Editor is opened, search for and remove all registry entries associated with Message Viewer Toolbar.

Step 6: Remove the toolbar from the affected browsers.

Internet Explorer
Start the browser, click Tools in top menu and select Manage add-ons.
Select Toolbars and Extensions on the left, and look for the unwanted toolbar.
Select the items and click Disable. Restart your browser.

Mozilla Firefox
Open Mozilla Firefox, click Tools in top menu and select Add-ons.
Select Extensions and Plugins on the sidebar, look for Message Viewer Toolbar.
Remove or disable it and restart Firefox to complete the removal.

Google Chrome
Start Google Chrome and click on the Wrench icon in the top-right corner.
Select Settings from the drop down list.
Click on Extensions on the left to display the installed extensions.
Find and disable/delete the unwanted toolbar and restart the browser.

Are you a novice computer user? Feel it difficult to manually eliminate Message Viewer Toolbar from your computer? Please download and run an advanced removal tool to deal with the annoying toolbar now!