Name: DLSearchBar Category: Adware Alias: SearchBar, Teen SearchBar, SearchBarToolbar Advice: Remove Risk: Elevated Risk Elevated threats are usually threats that fall into the range of adware in which data about a user's habits are tracked and sent back to a server for analysis without your consent or knowledge. Description: DLSearchBar is an adult variant IE toolbar of the Find Whatever Now toolbar. From the privacy policy: "DLSEARCHBAR COLLECTS AND STORES INFORMATION ABOUT THE WEB PAGES YOU VIEW, THE DATA YOU ENTER IN SEARCH ENGINE SEARCH FIELDS AND KEY WORD SCANS WHILE USING THE SOFTWARE. SOME INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE DLSEARCHBAR SOFTWARE IS PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE. DLSEARCHBAR USES THIS INFORMATION TO DETERMINE WHICH OFFERS TO MAKE TO YOU IN ORDER FOR YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DLSEARCHBAR'S ADVANCED INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM. HOWEVER, DLSEARCHBAR ASSOCIATES AND/OR STORES THIS DATA WITH YOUR INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS AND OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION IN ORDER TO ANALYZE SUCH DATA TO DETERMINE ASSIST YOU IN LOCATING INFORMATION AND OFFERS THAT MEET YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS. DLSEARCHBAR USES THIS INFORMATION TO DETERMINE WHICH OFFERS TO MAKE TO YOU IN ORDER FOR YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DLSEARCHBAR'S ADVANCED INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AGREEMENT AND PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING AND USING THIS SOFTWARE. IF YOU DOWNLOAD AND USE THIS SOFTWARE, YOU WILL BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE PRIVACY POLICY. DLSEARCHBAR AND YOUR PRIVACY DLSEARCHBAR is committed to your privacy. We will never disclose your personally identifiable information to outside parties without your express consent unless we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to comply with law or enforce or apply the terms of our user agreement. DLSEARCHBAR is constantly evolving. New features are continuously being added to the site and Software. With these improvements, our privacy statement may evolve. If this should happen, we will inform you through our site's homepage and this privacy statement. Regardless of the aforementioned, we will never disclose your personally identifiable information to outside parties without your consent. WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT If you are only visiting the DLSEARCHBAR Web site (www.DLSEARCHBAR.com), we collect the following information: the full Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the Web page from which you came to www.DLSEARCHBAR.com; your Internet Protocol ("IP") Address, which may include a domain name; the date and time for each page you view; the name of and information about any advertisement that brought you to the DLSEARCHBAR Web site; Computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform. We also transmit cookies to your computer so we can track the pages of our Web site that you view and the order in which you view them. If you download and install the DLSEARCHBAR toolbar software (the "Software"), we collect any information available during the installation and registration process, which can include your email address as well as demographic information such as gender, age, occupation, household income, zip code and country. We also collect the name of and information about any advertisement that brought you to the DLSEARCHBAR Web site or download. All information is correlated to Web usage and other information collected during use of the Service. When you download the Software, and at times during your use of the Service, we transmit DLSEARCHBAR cookies to the hard drive of your computer. These cookies assign your Web browser a unique series of numbers, letters, or characters (your "User ID") that enable DLSEARCHBAR's servers to recognize and identify your Web browser when you are using the Service. They also enable DLSEARCH Type: Adware - Adware is generally software that displays advertisements. Some advertisers may covertly install adware on your system and generate a stream of unsolicited advertisements that can clutter your desktop and affect your productivity. The advertisements may also contain pornographic or other material that you might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track you or to display advertisements can tax your computer and hurt your system performance.