The file ietoolbar.dll, known as AVG Security Toolbar, belongs to software AVG Security Toolbar by AVG Technologies. The AVG Security Toolbar is browser plugin that is designed to protect the user from infected Websites while surfing the Internet. It works together with the LinkScanner to check the results of supported Internet search engines like Yahoo, Bing, AOL, Yandex, Google, and Ask.com to ensure that the sites are safe. This application uses a rating system that tells the user if the visited website is safe, and restricts access to dangerous or suspicious pages. The AVG Toolbar can be used to control the LinkScanner functions, to adjust its behavior, and to update AVG when new updates become available. In addition, the AVG Security Toolbar includes a utility for cleaning the browser history and cookies. This application works with Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox, but exhibits unexpected behavior with other browsers like the Avant Browser.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. ietoolbar.dll. is used by AVG Security Toolbar, If you shut down ietoolbar.dll, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop ietoolbar.dll, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is AVG Security Toolbar, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed ietoolbar.dll

A process usually a part of an installed application such as AVG Security Toolbar, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if ietoolbar.dll. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that ietoolbar.dll, belongs to, in this case AVG Security Toolbar