Can't Delete Toolbar

I decided to just give up and switch to Firefox. But I had a different toolbar, from some other Virus Manufacturing Co. Funny thing, the two web browsers are very similar.

I deleted all things-Safari for now.

Morphster came to my iMac via a banner ad on Twitpic to "zombify" photos. Afterwards, Morphster was installed, and all sorts of weirdness ensued. Fortunately I was able to learn how to remove this nasty thing by coming here. This is the sort of misery I associate with Windows, not the Mac OS.

Wow, Tony!

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That's terrible!
At least we know to put that on our list of known culprits.
So sneaky!
Glad you figured it out, and glad you found the answer on the boards here.

I have had the same prob. As soon as the Morphster toolbar showed up (on Firefox) I immediately uninstalled it via FF, but ever since I have had trouble accessing the Net with three browsers: Safari, Opera and Firefox (via Roadrunner). Very very slow to load and/or times out, says server not found, etc. Also Entourage suddenly cannot access my Gmail--not sure if that is related?

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If you read above, you should make sure it's gone from all the places Carolyn mentioned.
There may be remnants lying about.

Hi, everyone. I installed morphster by accident on my firefox and now find it has taken over both firefox and safari on my computer. I cannot find how to uninstall it. When I use spotlight to search for morphster nothing comes up.

I tried to follow this thread without success:

HD/Library/Application Support/Conduit - [There is nothing called Conduit in my applications support folder.]
HD/Library/InputManagers/CTLoader - [There is no Input Managers in my library. There is an InputMethods but it is empty.
HD/Library/Receipts/ctloader.pkg [There is no ctloader.pkg in my Receipts folder, nor can I find any ctloader with a search.]
HD/Library/Receipts/<Toolbar name>.pkg - [There is no new toolbar or any other thing installed within the last month in my Receipts folder, though I installed this plug-in today.]
HD/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/CT2285220.bundle [Nothing called SIMBL in my Application Support folder.]
HD/Users/<User name>/Library/Application Support/Conduit [ Still no Conduit in my Application Support folder.]

Currently I cannot get into my email because of this virus like plug in. There is a box at the top of my browser that says Morphster and when I click on it it takes me right back to morphster.com, the awful website that tricked me into downloading this plug in by promising that all it would do would allow me to download a christmas card. Please help!

Ok, with the help of a friendly sos apple person I was able to uninstall the morphster toolbar from my firefox application. I also had to reset my home page (which morphster had reset.)

1. Open Firefox.
2. Under Firefox open Preferences.
3. Under the General tab reset your home page.
4. Under the General tab click on "manage add-ons."
5. Choose uninstall for both the conduit plug-in and the community plug-in.
6. Quit and restart Firefox.

Hope this helps anyone who comes after me. Avoid Morphster's home page under all circumstances!

I deleted this in Safari by clicking the button from the tool bar that says Morpheus and selecting the settings and going to the last tab and there is a button that says uninstall this toolbar. Not sure if this was ever answered for Safari.

Thank you so much for this information now MORPHSTER IS REMOVVEEDD!!!!!

Thank you for the tip on deleting morphster. I am convinced it was installed when I did an Office 2008 update, which (unusually) asked me to close safari as part of its process. Immediately after, the offending plugin was there.

. I am convinced it was installed when I did an Office 2008 update

Unlikely, if it was a genuine source for Office - but either way, something placed the files, just that they weren't active in Safari until it was started up; which is usual.

Hi all - same problem here - followed steps above - however, when I try to empty the trash - it will not delete:


InputManagers
CTLoader
GrowlSafari
LCC Scroll Enhancer Loader


(it says they are in use, but I don't have any applications open, including Safari. Any tips?

Thanks
Laura

Never mind - was able to get rid of it

How did you empty the trash?! It won't let me!! I have to get rid of this thing, but my mac is telling me it's in use. I have nothing else opened, what do I do???

I missed step 5 in this article from CNET - and it totally solved the problem for me (I didn't have to do any steps after #5, but I'm not sure if it's necessary for you).


by Conduit_Support January 10, 2011 2:57 AM PST
Two ways to completely remove community toolbar powered by Conduit:

One: Run /Applications/Toolbars/<Toolbar name>/Uninstall.app

In case the application fails you need to delete the followings:

Open the Finder application:

1. Browse to: Machintosh HD -> Library -> Application Support -> Conduit -> Plugins

2. Remove Plugins directory.

3. Browse to: Machintosh HD -> Library -> InputManagers - > CTLoader

4. Remove CTLoader directory.

5. Browse to: Machintosh HD -> Library -> LaunchAgents -> com.conduit.loader.agent.plist

6 .Remove com.conduit.loader.agent.plist file

7. Browse to: Applications -> Toolbars

8 .Remove Toolbars directory

9. Browse to: Machintosh HD -> Library -> ScriptingAdditions -> ct_scripting.osax

10 .Remove ct_scripting.osax directory


Read more: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20027867-263.html#ixzz1B4UMveEY