Iminent Toolbar and Search.iminent.com Removal Manual

Berta Bilbao

Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.

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The website Search.iminent.com is a search engine that the Iminent browser extension uses. Start.iminent.com is often mistaken for a browser hijacker because the searches of many users have been redirected to this webpage. The Iminent Toolbar is the one that may change the settings of your current browser and set Search.iminent.com as your homepage and default search engine. So in order to stop the redirects, you need to uninstall the toolbar first. The website Start.iminent.com may also display sponsored links and various advertisements in the search results it presents. Security experts strongly advise users to remove the toolbar because of the potential malware risks involved with the browsing of unverified or unsafe links.

What is Iminent and How Does It Affect Your PC?

The Iminent Toolbar is a browser extension that generates emoticons when you use Facebook and other web-based email products. The add-on is compatible with the most common browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. It can be downloaded from the official page of the product, but it can also end up on your computer when you download freeware and shareware online. Adware often gets installed on the user’s PC bundled with other programs and applications. In order to avoid such potentially unwanted apps, always pay attention to the steps of the Installation Wizard and make sure to uncheck any program you don’t want on your computer.

Once installed, the Iminent Toolbar changes the settings of your current browser, altering your default search engine and homepage to start.imient.com. Since it is an add-supported application, you will be presented with various pop-up, in-text and banner advertisements along with the search results.

What Type of Information Does Iminent Collect?

The Iminent Toolbar and the search feature use cookies and other tracking technology to collect information about your browsing habits and search queries, in order to improve their services and provide the user with accurate search results, advertisements or other information that matches the user’s interests. According to the Privacy Policy on the website, the Iminent Toolbar and search engine may also collect the following data:

• Personally identifying information (email address, username, etc.)
• Personally non-identifying (IP address, operating system type, etc.)

This information may be collected for advertising purposes and may be sold to third-parties.

Should You Remove Iminent Toolbar and Search Feature?

Although the application is legitimate, our security experts recommend the removal of the Iminent Toolbar and search feature as soon as possible. Clicking on each of the numerous advertisements displayed with the search results hides a potential risk. Our PC security team advises you to stick with a trustworthy provider for your searching activities.

In order to safely remove the Iminent Toolbar, we recommend the use of legitimate anti-malware program.

Spy Hunter FREE scanner will only detect the threat. If you want the threat to be automatically removed, you need to purchase the full version of the malware tool.

1. Restore the settings in your browser

1. Remove Iminent from your browser

Remove a toolbar from Mozilla FirefoxRemove a toolbar from Google Chrome Remove a toolbar from Internet Explorer Remove a toolbar from Safari

Start Mozilla Firefox Open the menu window

Select the “Add-ons” icon from the menu

Select Iminent and click “Remove”

After Iminent is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Google Chrome and Open the drop menu

Move the cursor over “Tools” and then from the extended menu choose “Extensions“

From the opened “Extensions” menu locate Iminent and click on the garbage bin icon on the right of it.

After Iminent is removed, restart Google Chrome by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Internet Explorer:

Click “‘Tools’ to open the drop menu and select ‘Manage Add-ons’

In the ‘Manage Add-ons’ window, make sure that in the first window ‘Add-on Types’, the drop menu ‘Show’ is on ‘All add-ons’

Select Iminent to remove, and then click ‘Disable’. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected toolbar, and some additional toolbars might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click ‘Disable’.

After Iminent has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red ‘X’ in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Safari

Open the drop menu by clicking on the sprocket icon in the top right corner.

From the drop menu select ‘Preferences’
In the new window select ‘Extensions’
Click once on Iminent
Click ‘Uninstall’

A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall Iminent. Select ‘Uninstall’ again, and the Iminent will be removed.

2. Remove Iminent automatically with Spy Hunter Malware - Removal Tool.

2. Remove Iminent automatically with Spy Hunter Malware – Removal Tool.

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Berta Bilbao

Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.

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