Ask dot com toolbar ..... it stinks

As careful as I am I still get tricked into something. The hackers are getting smarter and smarter as time goes on. Today I started my Firefox Browser and there at the top was a Ask search toolbar. A quick search of how to remove it, but all I found was more tricky scam remover software. A look at from the control panel ad and remove software, but no help, Ask toolbar was not listed. But from firefox tools located at the very top was listed toolbars. From there it was an easy task to remove it. But now my Google toolbar was gone. Liking the Google toolbar I had to re-install it. All I can say, "Careful what you click on or read the fine print as you install updates or programs".