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BHORemover
Remove Malicious Browser Helper Objects from your System.
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About BHORemover
BHO stands for Browser Helper Objects which are plugins written for Internet Explorer to enhance its capabilities. But this feature is being misused by many spyware programs which monitor user's browsing habits and also steal the users credentials silently. Also some of the BHO's slow down the system considerably.

BHORemover helps in quick identification and elimination of such malicious BHO's present in the system. It not only displays detailed information about each BHO entry but also provides online verification mechanism which makes it easy to differentiate between legitimate and malicious plugins.

Current version of BHORemover comes with enhanced user interface with cool look & feel, sorting mechanism to arrange the entries based on various parameters and online verification of BHO using ProcessLibrary.com
 
 
BHORemover in Action
Screenshot : BHORemover displaying the installed BHO's on the system 
 
 
 
How does BHORemover Works?
All Browser Helper Objects installed on the system are stored under following registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects

Each entry under this key is a CLSID which uniquely identifies particular BHO. Once you know the CLSID, more information about it can be obtained by looking for that ID under following registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID

This will give your complete path information of the DLL associated with the BHO. From this path information, you can find out company name, file version, size, installation date etc.

To remove particular BHO, you have to remove those above mentioned entries from registry. Note that modifying the registry manually can be dangerous and leads to disastrous results if edited wrongly. It is recommended that you use BHORemover tool to remove it from the system easily and quickly.
 
 
How to use BHORemover
BHORemover is standalone tool which does not require any installation. On launching this tool, it will scan the system for all installed BHO's and list them with the following information
  • BHO Class Name
  • CLSID of the BHO
  • Company Name
  • File Version
  • File Size
  • Install Date
  • BHO File Path
You can verify the BHO by clicking on the 'Check Online' button which will display the results about its authenticity from the 'ProcessLibrary.com'. Also you can either double click on the selected entry or click on 'properties' button to view the DLL file properties for quick verification.

To delete any of them, just select it and then click the 'Remove BHO' button. This will delete all the associated registry entries as well as the DLL file from the system. Note that once the BHO is deleted, it cannot be reverted.
 
 
History
Version 1.6: 10th May 2009
Now one can view the BHO file properties by either double clicking on the selected entry or clicking on 'properties' button. Added sort by date feature to make it easy to view the latest installed BHO. Also now it displays the tooltips for buttons to make it more clear.
 
Version 1.5: 17th April 2009
This version comes with new features such as online verification of BHO through processlibrary.com, sorting of the entries in the list based on various parameters, enhanced user interface with really cool look & feel.
 
Version 1.0.2:  17th June 2007
User interface improvement, Vista UAC compatibility along with bug fixes.
 
Version 1.0 : 29th June 2006
First public release of BHORemover
 
 
 
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License  : Freeware
Platform : Windows XP, 2003, Vista

 
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