http://www.dotcomtoolbar.com/

The dotcom toolbar takes over my address bar in IE.

How can I remove this program which seems to have installed itself
automatically on my computer when visiting a site with the dotcom
toolbar code?

If a program can install itself merely by visiting a webpage, is this
not a security vulnerabilitry for windows xp?

If you look at this page:

http://newbie.org/help/messages/2307.html

They say that you can do the following:

I spent most of the day on this and I figured it out. When Internet
Explorer is open, this hijacker feeds off of a file called
"redirect2.exe". What you need to do, is go into your task menu by
pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE, click on Task Manager, click on the
processes tab, find this program "redirect2.exe". End Process it, then
go to your file search, and search for that name "redirect2.exe. There
may be 2 multiple entries. Delete all of them. Empty your recycle bin,
and this will take care of the problem, and you are dotcom toolbar
free.

This should get rid of it.  I installed it on my XP machine and then
followed these instructions and it got rid of it.  In the future, I
would highly suggest downloading Spybot Search & Destroy at
http://spybot.eon.net.au/  It is a Spyware killer that will keep your
computer free and clean of all that parasitic annoying software that
randomly appears on your system.

Hope this helps!

Check this:

http://forums.techguy.org/t168477/s760fec733640fc62e6e14d6f631127fc.html

It is not so much a security vulnerability.  When the dotcomtoolbar
tried to plant itself into my computer, IE asked me whether I want
such a program to be installed.  All I had to do was press "No" and it
never bothered me again.  Since it needs your consent to be installed,
it is not a vulnerability.

secret901-ga