williambuell

I just purchased Lavasoft Ad-Aware and it installed its toolbar to my Firefox. I did it from my master admin account. Then I decided to create a non-admin user account for security reasons. I discovered that the Lavasoft toolbar was NOT installed in Firefox in that new user account. I took the steps necessary to install the Firefox Ad-Aware Toolbar but in error I said YES to the Google tool bar which I did not want. The only way I could remove it was to go to programs add/remove and remove the Lavasoft Ad-Aware tool bar and also an Adaware tool bar for Microsoft Explorer. When I rebooted and loaded Firefox, the Adaware toolbar was gone as well as the Google tool bar. So, with regard to your problem, you should be able to REMOVE the Adaware tool bar in that same fashion after Lavasoft Adaware has been installed. Since I wanted the Adaware toolbar WITHOUT the Google tool bar, I repeated the Lavasoft add-on install but said NO to the two Google search engine questions. I am using Microsoft Essentials Antivirus on a Toshiba Qosmio Widows 7 machine. I purchased the Lavasoft hoping that it would reduce tracking cookies and spyware. I do use the NOSCRIPT add-on for Firefox which only allows the scripts and sites I want to run. I use Facebook in Firefox and do other things in Chrome because I dont want Facebook to look at my Chrome cookies. When I want privacy from Facebook then I log out of Facebook and use NOSCRIPT to forbid Facebook. I wish that privacy were not such a confusing issue.