What is sidebar.exe?

[gecko]

I keep getting a repeated error window labeled 'sidebar.exe - no disk'
and an error message 'There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a
disk into drive \Device\Hardisk3\DR7' with the options Cancel, Try
Again, and Continue.

I have searched my hard drive for sidebar and have found nothing.

What is it? How do I get rid of it? It just started and won't stop.

Thanks

-GECKO

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Re: What is sidebar.exe?

http://www.file.net/process/sidebar.exe.html

"gecko" <alpha@olympus.net> wrote in message
news:gcd9f4pslvv9l8g3kcjsmh2s57j3rk5o7l@4ax.com...
:I keep getting a repeated error window labeled 'sidebar.exe - no disk'
: and an error message 'There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a
: disk into drive \Device\Hardisk3\DR7' with the options Cancel, Try
: Again, and Continue.
:
: I have searched my hard drive for sidebar and have found nothing.
:
: What is it? How do I get rid of it? It just started and won't stop.
:
: Thanks
:
: -GECKO

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: What is sidebar.exe?

Sidebar.exe is most often associated with SearchCentrix hijackware/adware.

What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What
anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall
(if any)?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
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gecko wrote:
> I keep getting a repeated error window labeled 'sidebar.exe - no disk'
> and an error message 'There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a
> disk into drive \Device\Hardisk3\DR7' with the options Cancel, Try
> Again, and Continue.
>
> I have searched my hard drive for sidebar and have found nothing.
>
> What is it? How do I get rid of it? It just started and won't stop.
>
> Thanks
>
> -GECKO

 

[gecko]

Re: Re: What is sidebar.exe?

Re: Re: What is sidebar.exe?

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:56:22 -0400, "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
<PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:

>Sidebar.exe is most often associated with SearchCentrix hijackware/adware.
>
>What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What
>anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall
>(if any)?


I found sidebar.exe by changing search parameters. My oversight. I
could not delete it until I booted up in safe mode. After that, it
has not appeared. I have no idea from whence it came.

I made two posts because for some reason, my posts seemed to not make
it. I hope this one will. When I asked Forte Agent to show me new
headers for the news group, it said there were none. Yet when I
finally in desperation asked Agent to show all headers for today - my
posts were there. Go figure! I am beginning to think my version of
Agent has a mind of its own.

Sorry about the double posts.

Thanks

-GECKO

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Re: What is sidebar.exe?

Re: Re: What is sidebar.exe?

> I made two posts because for some reason, my posts seemed to not make
> it. I hope this one will. When I asked Forte Agent to show me new
> headers for the news group, it said there were none. Yet when I
> finally in desperation asked Agent to show all headers for today - my
> posts were there. Go figure! I am beginning to think my version of
> Agent has a mind of its own.

You'd be much better off accessing this and other MS newsgroups using the
free MS newsserver: news://msnews.microsoft.com
--
~PA Bear

gecko wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:56:22 -0400, "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
> <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sidebar.exe is most often associated with SearchCentrix
>> hijackware/adware.
>>
>> What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What
>> anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party
>> firewall
>> (if any)?
>
>
> I found sidebar.exe by changing search parameters. My oversight. I
> could not delete it until I booted up in safe mode. After that, it
> has not appeared. I have no idea from whence it came.
>
> I made two posts because for some reason, my posts seemed to not make
> it. I hope this one will. When I asked Forte Agent to show me new
> headers for the news group, it said there were none. Yet when I
> finally in desperation asked Agent to show all headers for today - my
> posts were there. Go figure! I am beginning to think my version of
> Agent has a mind of its own.
>
> Sorry about the double posts.
>
> Thanks
>
> -GECKO