Removal
TrafficSyndicate offer two uninstaller files for HuntBar/TS, which have been reported not to work properly.
HuntBar/Side may put an entry called 'MSIETS' in the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs option, which should remove this variant.
HuntBar/MSLink and HuntBar/BTLink have two entries in the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs option, called 'Internet 404' and 'Tools for Internet Explorer'. Both entries (which also demand an internet connection to work) must be removed to get rid of these variants, but it will leave the files intact and still won't remove the MSIn or BTIn installer, which can reinstall the software automatically in the future.
HuntBar/SToolbar puts an entry called 'Search Toolbar' in Add/Remove Programs, which should work (though it requires an internet connection).
HuntBar/WinTools has an entry for 'Web Search Toolbar' along with at least one entry called 'Win-Tools Easy Installer', all of which need to be used to remove the software. An internet connection is needed to complete the uninstallation; you must also ignore the software's pleas to be allowed to continue (pay attention to the potentially confusing action buttons). During testing, the 'Easy Installer's did not always work, necessitating manual removal in this case.
Manual removal
WinTools variant
The WinTools variant cannot be removed in the normal desktop because each of the three processes, plus a BHO, keep each other alive when you try to stop them. So you will need to use Safe Mode.
To get to Safe Mode, press the F8 key just as Windows is about to boot. If you use a multiboot system, this is the point where the boot menu appears; if not, just keep tapping F8 as the machine boots until the menu appears.
Open the registry (click 'Start', choose 'Run', enter 'regedit') and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. Select the subkey 'Run' and delete the 'WinTools' entry on the right. If there is still a 'TB_setup' or 'TBPS' entry here, delete that too.
Next, select the subkey 'Explorer\Browser Helper Objects', delete the whole subkey with the name '{87766247-311C-43B4-8499-3D5FEC94A183}'. Finally, find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and delete the WinToolsSvc subkey. Reboot normally.
All variants
Open a DOS command prompt window (from Start->Programs->Accessories), and enter the following commands. For HuntBar/TS:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Common Files\MSIETS\msiets.dll"
For HuntBar/Side and HuntBar/MSLink, enter:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Common Files\MSIETS\msielink.dll"
For HuntBar/BTLink, enter:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Common Files\BTLINK\btlink.dll"
For HuntBar/MSIn, enter:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u msiein.dll
For HuntBar/BTIn, enter:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u btiein.dll
For HuntBar/SToolbar, enter:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Search Toolbar\SToolbar.dll"
For HuntBar/WinTools, enter:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Common Files\WinTools\WToolsB.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Common Files\WinTools\btiein.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Toolbar\toolbar.dll"
(Users of non-English verions of Windows will need to change 'Program Files' and 'Common Files' in the above commands to the name of the these folders in the language Windows was installed in.)
File deletion
Having done this you can reboot the machine and delete the HuntBar files. Open the 'Common Files' folder inside Program Files. For the TS, Side, MSLink variants, delete 'MSIETS'; for the BTLink variant delete 'BTLINK'; for the WinTools variant delete 'WinTools'.
Go back to the Program Files folder and delete 'Search Toolbar' (SToolbar variant) or 'Toolbar' (WinTools variant). Finally, open the System folder (inside the Windows folder, called 'System32' under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) and delete 'msiein.dll' (MSIn variant) or 'btiein.dll' (BTIn variant).
Other traces
You can also open 'Downloaded Program Files' in the Windows folder and delete the entry '{8A05273A-2EA5-42DE-AA75-59EA7D9D50D7}', '{59450DB0-341D-4436-B380-B8377D8B6796}', '{D6E66235-7AA6-44ED-A06C-6F2033B1D993}' or '{26E8361F-BCE7-4F75-A347-98C88B418322}', if you received HuntBar through a drive-by download.
To clean up, you can also open the registry (click 'Start', choose 'Run', enter 'regedit') and delete any of the subkeys 'MSIETS', 'MSIEIN', 'MSLINK', 'BTIEIN', 'BTLINK', 'Search Toolbar' and 'WinTools' in the Software subkey of both HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
For WinTools, you can also delete the keys inside HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID with numbers {26E8361F-BCE7-4F75-A347-98C88B418322} and {87067F04-DE4C-4688-BC3C-4FCF39D609E7}. Inside HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PROTOCOLS, the Name-Space Handler\res\WToolsB.ResProtocol key can also go. Next, open Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software, and delete the 'AUI' and 'STO' subkeys, and the 'TUID' entry.
Finally (phew!) you may want to delete the shortcuts the HuntBar/Side and TS variants add to the desktop, start menu and favourites menu, and reset your search and home pages back to normal (Tools->Internet Options->Programs->Reset Web Settings).
