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Remove IEMonit Spyware

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About IEMonit

IEMonit is a search result hijacker implemented as an Internet Explorer Browser Helper object. It checks queries submitted to search engines for sex-related keywords (Google, Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, Infospace and a variety of Polish search engines are targeted.) and opens advertisements when targeted keywords are entered.

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How to Remove IEMonit?

1. Deregister the IEKMonit BHO. Open a DOS command prompt window (Start->Run, type 'cmd' or 'command') and enter:
   
   cd "%WinDir%\System"
   regsvr32 /u iemonit.dll
   
2. Open the registry editor ( click Start >Run, enter 'regedit') and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete the entry 'Internet Explorer Library' on the right pane, pointing to 'ieupdates.exe', 'updaterie01.exe' or 'fixieupdate.exe'.
   
3. Restart windows.
4. Delete 'iemonit.dll' and 'ieupdates.exe'/'updaterie01.exe'/'fixieupdate.exe' from the System folder, which is inside the Windows folder (and is called 'System32' on Windows NT/2000/XP).

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