PC Hell: How to Remove Ezula TopText, Spedia Surf+, or Vibrant Media Intellitxt

Have you ever viewed a web page and saw a link on it that wasnt quite right? Many times its a yellow underlined link instead of the normal blue hyperlinks. When you click on it, it takes you to a dictionary site, third party site, or something else that you didnt expect. If this has happened to you then your computer is probably infected with something like TopText, Surf+, or Intellitxt. They are products that load into your computer and offer references for specific words on the site. Unfortunately in some cases this means links to a competitors website or product.

TopText created by Ezula is billed as a "premier personal Internet reference and simplification tool that empowers you with an easy way to navigate the Internet and retrieve relevant information with a click of the mouse." Ezula claims to not collect, share or sell any identifiable information about you, however the potential is there. For this reason, I would recommend removing any traces of TopText you find on your system. The potential for misuse is there. TopText has been installed by programs like Kazaa. Top Text infections look like the following:

Spedia Surf+ was a similiar type program to TopText, although it doesnt appear to be in its original form anymore. Now Spedia markets a Surfbar that is designed for "pay for surfing" activities.

Vibrant Media's Intellitxt is different from the spyware of Surf+ or TopText because it doesnt run on a visitors computer. Its actually a new advertising method developed on the TopText idea. Web sites can sign up to put Intellitxt on their sites. Then Vibrant Media will create hyperlinks to important keywords that lead to advertisers sites. A clicked link on a site using Intellitxt would generate revenue for the site owner. This revenue would be paid by the linked advertiser.

Click on the following link to go to Whirly Wiry Web to check your computer for TopText or Spedia Surf+

O3 - Toolbar: TopText - {55910916-8B4E-4C1E-9253-CCE296EA71EB} - C:\PROGRA~1\eZula\eabh.dll
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [eZmmod] C:\PROGRA~1\ezula\mmod.exe

Since Intellitxt does not run on an individual's computer but rather on the web site itself, there is nothing to uninstall to remove it. The only way to not see these links would be to stop visiting sites using Intellitxt advertising technology. However Intellitxt does offer an optional HTML tag for site owners to allow visitors to their sites to turn Intellitxt ads on or off.