The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Toolbar.Facemood" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:
  • adware
  • pups

Description:
Toolbar.Facemood installs a toolbar in the Internet Explorer and in the Mozilla Firefox, changes the start page of both browsers and changes the default searchbar in the browser. Additionally it displays advertisement and offers the possibility to add fun icons to mails. If the user installs Toolbar.Facemood he has to agree that CPU und bandwidth can be used by Toolbar.Facemood and personal information like used browsers, language, operating system and IP-Address get stored.
Removal Instructions:

Files:

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
  • A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "esrv.escrtSrvc.*", plus associated values.
  • A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "esrv.escrtSrvc", plus associated values.
  • Delete the registry key "{542FA950-C57A-4E17-B3E1-D935DFE15DEE}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{5B035F86-41B5-40F1-AAAD-3D219F30244E}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{6365AC7B-9920-4D8B-AF5D-3BDFEAC340A8}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{6A934270-717F-4BC3-BA59-BC9BED47A8D2}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{74C012C4-00FB-4F04-9AFB-4AD5449D2018}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{79B13431-CCAC-4097-8889-D0289E5E924F}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{8C8D5C57-3CAD-4CF9-BCAD-F873678DA883}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{981334CB-7B8B-431F-B86D-67B7426B125B}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{A9379648-F6EB-4F65-A624-1C10411A15D0}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{C1C2FC43-F042-4F17-AEDB-C5ABF3B42E4B}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{F16AB1DB-15C0-4456-A29E-4DF24FB9E3D2}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{F7EC6286-297C-4981-9DCC-FD7F57BC24C9}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
If Toolbar.Facemood uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer, RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
  1. Please read these instructions before requesting assistance,
  2. Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.