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Remove IGetNet Spyware
About IGetNet
IGetNet is a browser hijacker implented as an IE Browser Helper Object. It has an a process that runs silently at Windows start-up.
This spyware redirects your browser search requests to its servers and check to see whether there are advertisements available that matches the keywords in your search. If so it will redirects you to the sponsor's site.
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How to Remove IGetNet Spyware?
- Close all open Internet Explorer windows .
- Open a Dos command prompt( Start > Run, enter 'command' or 'cmd'), enter the following commands:
For v4 variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u BHO.DLL
regsvr32 /u rsp.dll
Or for the v5 or v6 variants:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u BHO001.DLL
regsvr32 /u rsp001.dll
Or for the ClearSearch variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\ClearSearch\IE_ClrSch.DLL"
- Open the registry editor ( Start > Run, enter 'regedit'), find the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run, and delete the 'WinStart' (v4), 'WinStart002' (v5), 'WinStart001.exe' (v6) or 'ClrSrcLoader' (ClearSearch) entry.
- Restart Windows.
- Search for and delete the following files(if exist): Update_RemoveOld.DLL, rules.dat, BHO001.dll, rsp001.dll, IE_ClrSch.dll, rsp.dll, BHO.dll
- Open registry editor Click Start > Run, type 'regedit', and click Ok to open the Registry eidtor.
- Navigate to and delete the following registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\Ie Rsp
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLRSCH
- Exit the Registry Editor.
- Open the Hosts file a text editor. (It is named 'HOSTS' without a file extension (not Hosts.SAM); it is in the Windows folder on Windows 95/98/Me, or Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ on Windows NT/2000/XP. Find and remove the following entries:
216.177.73.139 auto.search.msn.com
216.177.73.139 search.netscape.com
216.177.73.139 ieautosearch
- Save the file.
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