Tip: Getting a ‘MyBrowserBar’ screen when you should be 404’ed? Here’s the fix.

So, every once and awhile lately, I had noticed something peculiar.  When I was surfing around on the ‘Net and hitting pages that were no longer there...I should have been hitting (and I did for about 1.5 seconds) a site hosted 404 page or error, but then was redirected to a page that is hosted by ‘MyBrowserBar.com’.  While this wasn't terribly annoying - there are indeed some 404 pages that are actually useful, and I really want to see them – Microsoft’s site comes to mind.

So, what the heck – Surely I’ve not let rogue bit of software on my system?

Upon doing a little bit of research, it appears that as a result of a PDFCreator installation, the 'PDFforge toolbar' somehow got installed, which like 99% of all other toolbars is not useful in any way.   

The fix:

If you see this screen instead of the typical 404, hit up your add/remove programs applet and perform a search for ‘PDFforge Toolbar’.  I need to do a bit of testing to make sure it doesn’t install itself even if I select not to – which I am pretty diligent about doing.

Request to PDFforge:  Remove this "helper" program from your install.

Source: [Enghiong]
Image courtesy [Homestarrunner.com]