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Remove Transponder Spyware
About Transponder
Transponder is an IE Browser Helper Object. It monitors web pages requested and data entered into forms, sends this information to its home server, and opens pop-up advertisement windows depending on targeted URLs being browsed. It also has the capability to update itself and install other software. Transponder/Blackstone was also distributed under the name NetPal by netpalnow.com, but the software now available there is the newer NetPal parasite which isn't the same code. , Transponder/VX2 has the internal name RespondMiter; VX2 also call this software Sputnik. In addition, Transponder reports back to its servers with URLs you have visited, things you have entered into web forms (even 'secure' ones), your computer configuration and software you have installed. If your e-mail address is set up in Outlook Express it will be sent to Mindset Interactive to be sold to spammers.
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How to Remove Transponder?
Follow these steps to remove Transponder from your machine,
- Transponder is a DLL file called IEHelper.dll (Blackstone variant), VX2.dll (VX2 variant), TPS108.dll (TPS108 variant) or MSView.dll (MSView variant). This can be found in the Windows folder.You need first deregister the DLL file. Open a DOS command prompt window (from Start->Programs->Accessories) and enter the following commands:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u ..\IEHelper.dll ( for the Blackstone variant:)
regsvr32 /u ..\VX2.dll ( for the VX2 variant)
regsvr32 /u ..\TPS108.dll ( for the TPS108 variant)
regsvr32 /u ..\MSView.dll ( for the MSView variant)
regsvr32 /u ..\host.dll ( for the Host variant)
regsvr32 /u ..\BI.dll ( for the BI variant)
regsvr32 /u ..\SiteHlpr.dll (for the SiteHlpr variant)
- Restart the computer.
- Delete the DLL file as mentioned above from the Windows folder. In the MSView variant you can also delete MSView.ini in the same place; in the Blackstone variant domlst.cch can be deleted. The Host variant may leave 'hostprep.exe'. In the TPS108 variant there may be a tps108.html file in the root of the C:\ drive; in the SiteHlpr variant it may be called bc777.html. These can be deleted to clean up.
- You can also clean up the registry (Start->Run->regedit) by deleting the 'Transponder' (Blackstone variant), 'RespondMiter' (VX2 variant), 'TPS108' (TPS108 variant), 'HostDll' (Host variant), 'MSView' (MSView variant) or 'SiteHlpr' (SiteHlpr variant) subkey of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software.
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