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Remove E2Give

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About E2Give

E2Give is an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object. It redirects accesses to web merchants to claim their affiliate commissions and can make it very slow for opening new Windows Explorer windows.

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E2Give has two variants:

E2Give/E2GBHO: an early version distributed form December 2002. Its main file is e2gbho.dll, stored in an 'E2Give' folder in Program Files.

E2Give/IeBHOs: a newer variant. Its main file is iechos.dll, stored in a folder called 'E2G' in the root of the C: drive.

How to Remove E2Give ? 

The E2GBHO variant can be removed using its uninstaller. Click the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs feature, choose ‘E2Give Browser Add On' and click remove.

To manually remove E2Give:

1. Open a DOS command prompt window (Start->Run, type 'cmd' (for windows 2000/XP) or 'command' (for windows 98/Me).
2. Enter the following commands,
   
   • for the E2GBHO variant:
     cd "%WinDir%\System"
     regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\E2Give\e2gbho.dll"
     
   • for the IeBHOs variant:
     cd "%WinDir%\System"
     regsvr32 /u "C:\E2G\iebhos.dll"
     
3. Restart the computer.
4. Delete the folder 'E2Give' in Program Files (E2Give variant), or 'E2G' in the C: drive (IeBHOs variant).
5. Open the registry editor ( Start->Run, type 'regedit' and click Ok).
   Find and delete the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\E2Give.

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