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Remove IPInsight Spyware
About IPInsight
IPInsight is a process or IE Browser Helper Object that monitors addresses entered into web forms, ostensibly to try to make a database of physical locations of IP addresses. It has the following variants:
- IPInsight/Ipinsigt: a reimplementation of the original Sentry as a BHO, provided by IPINSIGT.DLL in the Windows folder. This code is based on the Transponder parasite from Mindset Interactive; there is even a leftover message from Transponder/VX2 in the code about the software opening pop-up ads, which it doesn't!
- IPInsight/Sentry: installs a process Sentry.exe and datafile Sentry.ini in the Windows folder. This variant cannot be detected by the script at this site.
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How to Remove IPInsight?
IPInsight/Ipinsigt variant has an entry in Control Panel's option Add/Remove Programs, which removes the software from the current setup adequately.
However it leaves a copy behind in the 'last known good setup' which may reappear if you boot using this option. Delete the file IPINSIGT.DLL from the LastGood folder in the Windows folder, and IPINSIGT.PNF and IPINSIGT.inf from the LastGood\INF folder.
Finally you can remove IPInsigt from the hidden 'inf' folder in the Windows folder to clean up.
To manually remove IPInsight:
Sentry variant: open the registry (Start->Run->regedit) and open the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete the 'Sentry' entry. Reboot Windows and delete Sentry.exe and Sentry.ini in the Windows folder.
Ipinsigt variant: open a DOS command prompt windows (Start > Programs>Accessories (for Windows 98) or Start > Run , enter 'cmd' (for Windows 2000/XP)) and enter the following commands:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "..\IPINSIGT.DLL"
Reboot Windows and delete IPINSIGT.DLL in the Windows folder. You can also delete the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\IPInsight to clean up if you wish.
Delete the file IPINSIGT.DLL from the LastGood folder in the Windows folder, and IPINSIGT.PNF and IPINSIGT.inf from the LastGood\INF folder.
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