Browser helper objects (BHO’s) are listed in the registry and load with explorer when it runs (Internet Explorer/ File explorer are so closely tied it affects both.) I’ve used BHOdemon in the past to identify and disable BHO’s and a tool like that is the preferred method. However, in my case, this is a disposable virtual machine and I used the “blunt object” approach…. regedit.
Tag: BHO
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Disinfecting a PC… part 7
Ok, another reboot after the BHO cleaning. Things are a good deal more responsive now, less disc swapping going on. (I suspect that those three missing BHO entries may have been causing the slow down, but I don’t know.) Installing wintop so that processes can be monitored. Also, getting spybot S&D *(search and destroy) installed and copying update from disc. The system is pretty much won at this point, I don’t see anything running that I haven’t LET run at boot, everything that I had as suspect has been disabled, now it’s just a matter of cleaning up the remnants and leftovers.
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Disinfecting a PC… part 6
Ok, it’s BHOdemon time… installed from cd and on starting:
BHOdemon bhotb-all.html not found, no web connection downloading on other machine.
Finally get it to work copying from another machine. But I had to change the Windows ME to show full filenames to help troubleshoot why it couldn’t find the file (naming problem.) (There seems to be a strange display problem on setting “don’t hide file extensions” menu, (I can’t see the check boxes or the checkmarks…. I managed to toggle them “blind” to show file extensions)…