Do you have a Firefox Add-on called “PlaySushi TextLinks 1.0.0″ which you would like to remove, but won’t actually go away when you uninstall it from your Firefox?
What you need to do is close Firefox, go into your control panel, go into add or remove programs, and manually search for the program and uninstall it that way. Otherwise, the application has a background process which will just re-install the app once the browser reboots.
A Google search revealed nothing on the subject, so this must be a new type of spyware. The only function of this addon is to place text links on all websites based on popular keywords. The popups from hovering over the links gives you some games that you can play, which I’m sure the company also makes money from. The addon also sets cookies so that certain online purchases also makes them money, as if they referred a sale because of you.
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THANK YOU, I had heard on the web that this site contained some sort of malware or spyware, but McAffee didn’t detect it, so I downloaded it anyway. I couldn’t get it to work so I tried to delete it, and I was pretty freaked out when it kept re-installing itself.
All I did was clear all history and cookies and it was gone for me…i didn’t even install anything from playsushi…
You need to uninstall playsushi from control panel as well, and you wont have it anymore.
This worked for me:
1. Close Firefox
2. Right Click on the Firefox shortcut on your desktop
3. Select “Firefox Options”
4. Under first tab “Main” select “Manage Addons”
5. Find playsushi and Uninstall.
It should say that this addon will be uninstalled once Firefox is restarted.
Restart Firefox and problem should be solved……permanently.
Hope this helped.
I uninstalled the program, but the Firefox add-on is still there and it keeps re-installing itself. I tried searching for it in my computer, but it couldn’t find it. I did everything on here, and none of it worked.
Same here, I went to control panel and everything and it’s still there! ><;
i have uninstalled the program through microsoft control panel.
however there is still a firefox add-on, i have searched for it and have no results.
My NOD ativirus has seen nothing to alert it
:( any help iam grateful
Done :)
I uninstalled the add-on in fire fox and NOD antivirus deleted it when it tried to reinstall it self.
NOD 1 – Mcaffee 0
I keep uninstalling it from firefox but it stays there. T.T
the good thing though is that spyware doctor deletes all the harm it causes to my computer.
Bu i still want to get it removed permanently. anyone?
I figured it out!
Trust me guys and read:
1. Go to My Computer
2. Go to you Disk Drive that holds your Program Files
3. Then find the folder Program Files
4. Find the folder that has “sushi” in it
5. There will be an uninstaller
6. Uninstall then reboot
7. It’s gone forever!!!!
No there isn’t.I mean I have the folder, but there is no uninstaller.
Autumn, this took me a bit to fix but I finally got it. Using the latest version of Firefox (version 3.8) I didn’t have to close Firefox at all. Instead, I did the following and so far it appears to have worked:
1. With Firefox running choose “Tools” on the above menu
2. On the drop down menu choose “Add-ons”
3. When the Add-Ons window comes up, select “Extensions”
4. The nasty little bastard was called “PlaySushi TextLinks” select it and hit “DISABLE”
5. Restart Firefox
6. Repeat Steps 1-4, but this time select “Uninstall” and then restar, it should be gone
Initially I tried to UNINSTALL it right away, but it wouldn’t work. It makes sense that it has to be shut down before it can be removed.
Good Luck to everyone. I think I will be enjoying Sushi a little less from now on as a result of this.
This is really annoying.I wrote to customer support and cussed them out.I got it uninstalled from my computer, but I can’t get the add on off.
I cannot find it on my add/remove. If I try to use their program to uninstall it says it has already been removed.
You should have an uninstaller there. When you open the folder labeled PlaySushi ( item 4 on Savior’s post “4. Find the folder that has “sushi” in it) you should have 3 files. The first is the icon. The second is the text document. And the third should be the uninstaller. Click on it and follow the instructions. That should take care of it. This thing was so incredibly annoying…
That doesn’t always work though. I uninstalled in through Control Panel initially and as a result, the folder that was in Program files was completely removed, but of course the annoying textlinks were still active.
The critical thing for people to know is that it is labeled as “PlaySushi TextLinks” in the add-on list. Not all versions of Firefox work the same, but every version I’ve ever used has allowed for me to access add-ons from like I mentioned in the steps above.