My Web Tattoo – Fast Browser Search – Search Gurad Plus Uninstall & Removal

chris — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:09:11 +0000

While writing a new article about removing Fast Browser Search and My Web Tattoo, I was analyzing a new version of MakeTheWebBetter, which is the file I got from the MyWebTattoo site. I noticed it connected to a new site since the last time I looked at it, www.tattoodle.com Looks like they have expanded their operation to include My Space. I also found a new updated uninstall page which included Search Guard Plus, which was another new file I found that was being installed since I wrote my first uninstall guide. I am going to keep writing the new article I am working on but in the mean time, check out the new official uninstall page they have set up. It’s much better than before and like I said it includes the new programs.

Official Tattoodle Uninstall Page

It still doesn’t tell you how to fix the search redirection in Firefox so if that still plagues you, I have a guide for that here

If that still doesn’t fix it for you, and you have some basic computer skills, my next post may be the one to help you.

Remove Fast Browser Search

chris — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:17:18 +0000

First I have to admit, I did something stupid. I decided to install My Web Tattoo on my Facebook page. I knew with all the spam about this addon it would try and sneak in some kind of malware. Being the “I know how to fix anything” PC Tech that I am, I pretty much dared it to install something. Which it promptly did. It changed my default search to some crap called “Fast Browser Search.” I tried Spybot and BHO Remover, both of which found my system clean. I looked in the addons under firefox and uninstalled My Web Tatoo. Then I found that some of my search’s were still getting redirected to Fast Browser Search. So I searched my registry for Fast Browser Search and various combinations of those words. Nothing…. I searched the internet for Fast Browser Search and their site has nothing about how to remove it, big surprise. I won’t go into how it should be illegal for companies to pull this !#$!. I did find a page from the My Web Tattoo people that said you can remove it from the addons in firefox. Well I already did that, and it was still redirecting. Then I remembered the config settings in Firefox. And there it was.

Since this was such a nightmare to find and remove, I felt it was my duty to pass on this to you, my faithful readers Type about:config in the address bar in Firefox. In the filter, type fast. This should bring up all the instances of where Fast Browser Search has taken over. Right click on each of the Fast Browser Search entry s and select reset. This should put most of them back to google. And that’s it!

UPDATE: One of our readers, ED, has added another step

There was a few more steps i needed to do to remove it from list…in the search engine toolbar I had forgotten to click that and manage search engines as well, after the Tools/Add-on removal. Also , in the about:config area, I also typed in … fbs … in the filter section and found more fast browser search stuff in that filter set. Just in case, I reset them as well.=)

Thanks for the info Ed

MORE HELP
I figured out some more information on removing this. I can tell buy some of the replies that not everyone has seen the other posts I made later. Here is another one that might help if the above info didn’t.

more-my-web-tatto-removal-information

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My Web Tattoo – Fast Browser Search – Search Gurad Plus Uninstall & Removal

Remove Fast Browser Search