Thursday, March 17, 2011

Removing Baidu Bar - The easy way

I've been irritated by this Baidu toolbar installed on my IE without my consent for ages.
Spybot detects it but cannot remove it, even if you scan and remove at boot time, no it don't work..don't waste ur time.

So if you google "how to remove baidu bar" you will get millions of parrot sites telling you to remove a whole long list of registry entries, files, etc etc...
Nah..that doesn't work for me either.
The DLL appears again as soon as you "shift+delete" it.


So I thought to myself Baidu is like google in china, there should be a way to uninstall it right?
Translated their baidubar page here and found below instructions for uninstall
(2) Uninstall
There are two ways to uninstall the Baidu toolbar:  
one----Control Panel - "Add / Remove Programs -> Baidu Toolbar  
two----Click the logo Baidu Toolbar Menu - "Uninstall  Please use the above method to uninstall, do not delete the program files directly or use the Baidu toolbar uninstall other software, or may result in the case of incomplete uninstall.

Well..of course one doesn't exist.

Choice two works for me though!
Just open IE, click on the 1st button on the left of the BaiduBar..click on the trash bin icon (don't need to read any characters), click on the left button when prompted (usually left is OK, right is cancel).
Baidu bar is now gone from your universe!