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What is Ant.com IE add-on?

By Ant.com

What is it?

Ant.com IE add-on will add a button to download streaming videos to your hard disk while you are browsing with Internet Explorer. The Ant.com add-in will detect any video being played in your IE browser, and then will download it in its native .FLV format to your hard disk. The Movie Player will show a list of the videos that you downloaded using Ant.com IE add-on, and will let you play them, in a window or in full screen. It will also display an Ant.Com search engine box for web searches.

Download Boost and enjoy your PC. Remove Ant.com IE add-on from your PC.

Why should I uninstall Ant.com IE add-on?

Removing unwanted toolbars is usually a good idea. This toolbar, like other web browser extensions, can potentially have adverse effect on your web browser's and overall PC's performance and stability. This toolbar is known to monitor your search queries and browsing habits in order to send you targeted ads and modify your search settings and results.

Typical installation path: C:\Program Files\Ant.com\

Description from Ant.com

“Internet search is controlled by billion-dollars, publicly-traded companies. If you run a website and are not in their indexes, people cannot find you. Even if their service is generally good, the way they index the web has many flaws. They are causing significant collateral damages to many sites regularly. Their indexes are largely exploited by spammers and entities with sufficient funds that can manipulate the results easily. Yet we do not really see any other techniques being used. We think that this specific field (internet search) is of major importance and needs more protagonists, who are not money-driven shareholders, for the benefit of all. Therefore, we have developed a friendly Internet Search Engine, Ant.com.”

Publisher about URL: http://www.ant.com/video-downloader

Ant.com IE add-on technical details

Name:                   Ant.com Video Downloader toolbar
Publisher:              Ant.com Limited
Type:                   Toolbar
Class ID:               {2E924F4F-67F0-4BD8-9560-49F468E843D2}
File:                   anttoolbar.dll
Folder:                 C:\Program Files\Ant.com\IE add-on

Name:                   Ant.com browser helper (video detector)
Publisher:              Ant.com Limited
Type:                   Browser Helper Object
Class ID:               {346FDE31-DFF9-418A-90C8-BA31DC9FF2EF}
File:                   Download.dll
Folder:                 C:\Program Files\Ant.com\IE add-on

Name:                   Download videos by Ant.com
Publisher:              Ant.com Limited
Type:                   Browser Extension
Class ID:               {70AF6C9F-0818-4CF7-924A-BBDBB24211D3}
File:                   Download.dll
Folder:                 C:\Program Files\Ant.com\IE add-on

Files installed by Ant.com

Ant.com policies

The following can be found in Ant.com's privacy policies and terms of service:

“Ant Add-on aka Ant Video Downloader – is a free downloadable software, available on Your Internet Explorer or Firefox Internet browsers, allowing user”

How to Automatically Uninstall Ant.com IE add-on (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 Ant.com IE add-on by Ant.com. (The program could be listed under any of the section such as Uninstall Recommended, Possible Uninstall, etc. based on how well Ant.com IE add-on performs on your PC.)
Ant.com IE add-on by Ant.com
To the right of the list item, click the Uninstall button and Boost will completely remove Ant.com IE add-on from your PC.

How to Manually Uninstall Ant.com IE add-on (with Windows)

Use Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows makes to uninstall Ant.com IE add-on. Follow the appropriate instructions below to use this control panel.