What is FOX News Toolbar?
By FOX News
What is it?
FOX News Toolbar is a Conduit toolbar (OurToolbar Community) for Intenet Explorer and Firefox. The toolbar collects and stores information about your web browsing habits and sends this information to Conduit so they can suggest services or provide advertising via the toolbar. FOX News Toolbar will attempt to change your home page and search provider if you are not careful during installation and provides a search box and various other generic features in the toolbar.
Why should I uninstall FOX News Toolbar?
Removing unwanted web browser extensions is typically a good idea. FOX News Toolbar, along with many browser plug-ins, has the potential to cause stability issues within the web browsers they load into, effecting overall PC performance. FOX News Toolbar is known to monitor your search queries and the web sites you visit in order show advertisements and alter search settings and results.
Typical installation path: C:\Program Files\FOX_News
Description from FOX News“Get our freshest content delivered directly to your browser, no matter where you are on the Web. Search the Web and get a wide choice of useful search engines. By installing our community toolbar, you’ll get our whole group of related community toolbars that we picked for you. You can instantly swap among them without using any extra space on your browser. As part of the functionality available on the Application, we may offer you search features provided by us and/or other third parties. Additionally, we may use Cookies in the web search services we provide to you. These Cookies collect and store information about your search activity when you use our web search services. This information may be shared with third party applications that use search data to function or to offer you more customized information and services. The information collected and stored by these Cookies may include Personally Identifiable Information, depending on your search query. For instance, if you search your own name Personally Identifiable Information would be included in the search query. By using the search features provided by us, you are consenting to grant Conduit permission to use Cookies regarding your use of web search. ”
Publisher about URL: http://foxnews.ourtoolbar.com
FOX News Toolbar technical details
Name: FOX News API Server
Publisher: Conduit Ltd.
Type: ActiveX Control
Class ID: {49A0BB27-1BBA-4662-B056-3ECD4DA73502}
File: prxtbFOX_.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files\FOX_News
Name: FOX News Toolbar
Publisher: Conduit Ltd.
Type: Toolbar
Class ID: {86AA5A83-0BFC-4B5D-B973-C2EE818D09AF}
File: prxtbFOX_.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files\FOX_News
Name: FOX News Toolbar
Publisher: Conduit Ltd.
Type: Browser Helper Object
Class ID: {86AA5A83-0BFC-4B5D-B973-C2EE818D09AF}
File: prxtbFOX_.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files\FOX_News
FOX News policies
The following can be found in FOX News's privacy policies and terms of service:
“Personally identifiable information is collected if it is necessary to provide the Services. For example, when you visit our websites, performance and”
How to Automatically Uninstall FOX News Toolbar (with Boost)
If you you do not have Boost installed yet, download Boost and enjoy your PC.
Open Boost by either double-clicking the Boost icon 
in your notification area next to your PC's clock, or single-clicking the Boost icon and clicking the Open Boost button on the top left of the Boost notification window.
If you are not currently on the My PC screen of the main Boost window, click the My PC tab.
Click the Optimize programs button 
, this will launch the Program Optimization screen.
Locate the program in the list called FOX News Toolbar by FOX News. (The program could be listed under any of the section such as Uninstall Recommended, Possible Uninstall, etc. based on how well FOX News Toolbar performs on your PC.)
FOX News Toolbar by FOX News
To the right of the list item, click the Uninstall 
button and Boost will completely remove FOX News Toolbar from your PC.
How to Manually Uninstall FOX News Toolbar (with Windows)
Use Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows makes to uninstall FOX News Toolbar. Follow the appropriate instructions below to use this control panel.
Windows 7
From the Start menu, select Control Panel.
In Large or Small icon view, click Programs and Features. If you're using Category view, under "Programs", click Uninstall a program.
Select FOX News Toolbar from the list of programs, and click Uninstall. Alternatively, right-click the program and select Uninstall.
Windows Vista
From the Start menu, select Control Panel.
In Classic View, double-click Programs and Features. In Control Panel Home view, under "Programs", click Uninstall a program.
Select FOX News Toolbar from the program list, and click Uninstall. Alternatively, right-click the program and select Uninstall.
Windows XP
From the Start menu, select Control Panel.
Click the Add or Remove Programs icon.
Select FOX News Toolbar from the list of programs and click Remove.