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Remove Cytron
About Cytron
Cytron is an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object. It scans the content of pages being viewed for keywords and opens pop-up advertising when they are detected. It is installed by ActiveX drive-by download on a page pointed to by junk e-mail claiming you have received an 'e-card' (from domains such as surprisecards.net, cardwish.com). The ActiveX control purports to be a viewer for e-cards. When IE is started for the first time it attempts to connect to Cytron's servers to download a list of keywords to look for, and URLs of pop-ups to open.
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How to Remove Cytron?
To manually remove Cytron :
- First deregister the Cytron BHO.
Open a DOS command prompt (Start->Run, enter command (for Windows 98/Me) or cmd(for Windows 2000/XP/NT)) and enter the following commands:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "%WinDir%\Downloaded Program Files\potd.dll"
(Change potd.dll to sec.dll if you have Cytron/sec variant.)
- Delete the 'TargetingSource' entry in Downloaded Program Files (in the Windows folder).
- Open the registry editor (Start > Run, enter 'regedit'), locate the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\POTD and delete it.
Alternatively you can use PestPatrol to remove it.
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