how do I remove the search conduit toolbar

Which iMac, and can you be more specific as to what search conduit bar means? Where do you see it? In an app or in Finder?

That toolbar/ct plugin seems to cause problems for all who install it!

Close Safari, then locate and delete the following files and it should be gone:

/Library/Application Support/Conduit

/Library/InputManagers/CTLoader

/Library/Receipts/ctloader.pkg

/Library/Receipts/<Toolbar name>.pkg

/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/CT2285220.bundle

/Users/<User name>/Library/Application Support/Conduit

where / is the root library on your Hard Disk.

If you are running Snow Leopard you should also look here:

Library/launchAgents/com.conduit.loader.agent.plist

Library/Application support/conduit plugins

Also, as mentioned by Gilli2000:

Library/Receipts - If you read it, it has information in it at the bottom referring extensively to "CT" and "community toolbar".

Maybe it is harmless, but trash those items anyway!

Note: Safari does not support any third-party toolbars except those supplied as an extension to Safari via the Extension Gallery.

I have tried all of this on my Air (10.7.5) but those file does not exist on my system. I have also tried to set Google as start page and the the "about:config" - parameters (some of them anyway).

Any one got a clue!?

If you are running Lion:

From the Finder Menu bar, select Go ▹ Go to Folder, and in the box that opens write:

~/Library/Application Support/Conduit

Delete the second item if it is there.

Now select Go to Folder again and enter /Library

From the folder that opens, delete the following items if they are there (you may need your login password):

Application Support/Conduit

InputManagers/CTLoader

LaunchAgents/com.conduit.loader.agent.plist

ScriptingAdditions/ct_scripting.osax

then close the folder. Now select Go to Folder again and write: /Applications/Toolbars

Delete that item and close the Finder windows you opened. Log out then log back in, and you should be rid of it.

100% worked for me. Cheers buddy! Thank **** that's gone.

I could not find any of these files even after showing hidden files. However, the problem I was having was with Firefox. I did find some CT and conduit files/folders in /Users/<User name>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<strangename>.default/. Try removing those. If that doesn't help, go to this site: http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-conduit-redirect-virus.html

(When resetting about:config values in Mac, it looks like you have to go one by one and context-click (rightclick).)

Hi all,

I may be a year late but . . .

I'm trying to remove the Conduit toolbar also. My OS is Mavericks. I am not finding the Conduit files mentioned above in my Library/Application Support folder.

Any ideas on how to remove those files from a Mavericks OS?

--Mark Thornhill

I found and removed some files in the folder named conduit on my user folder (/Users/<username>).

and checked the settings of Chrome for getting the startup page back to what i used to use then it's gone

i'm using Mavericks

seemed it wouldn't work so i tried The Safe Mac. now it looks ok

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seemed it wouldn't work so i tried The Safe Mac. now it looks ok

http://www.thesafemac.com/art/

Thanks svistel, the above script worked perfectly...i wish i could donate!

this worked for me as well...I couldn't find anything else that would remove the ads but this did 🙂