BHO Cop for Win XP OR Dissable in the registry?

[amitech]

Hi, I know that My Win XP System has BHO on My PC (Installed by my son with Morpheus) Even though Morpheus is UNInstalled the dreaded dll is still at work, And it frequently causes IE6 Run-time error 91's.

So my question is: "BHO Cop" Does not seem to recognise the existance of BHO On my XP System and the application spec indicates that it is not written for Win XP
So: Is there an alternatie application that Completly removes or dissables BHO? Or I've seen some suggested reqistry hacks to "Un regester" BHO here. But I'm not sure that they are suitable for Windows XP Or this version of IE6 (SP 1).
Any worthwhile knowkedge or assistance out there please?

TIA.

Jim.

 

[linney]

http://64.246.11.7/~admin20/index.php

(This link is not working at the moment)


Morpheus using new address intercept tool

Some users of the popular Morpheus music sharing program are angry over a browser extension program distributed with the latest preview version of the software. The program, developed by Wurld Media and included with the Morpheus Preview Edition, silently intercepts certain addresses typed by Morpheus users into Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser before redirecting them to their final destination, Newsbytes has confirmed. The file, which is named bpboh.dll, uses a technology developed by Microsoft known as a browser helper object (BHO). According to an article at Microsoft's site, BHOs are "a relatively new and powerful way of injecting your code directly inside the browser's address space." When installed by Morpheus, the Wurld Media BHO causes addresses including radioshack.com, ebay.com, amazon.com, and toysrus.com, among others, to be intercepted and redirected to the shopping sites through affiliate marketing systems run by LinkShare Corp. and Be Free, Inc. The presence of Wurld Media's BHO technology in Morpheus was reported earlier this month in an Internet newsgroup for the discussion of peer-to-peer file exchange technology. "I was obviously aware that (Morpheus is) ad-supported, but I suspect a lot of folk didn't realise it was done this way ... Bunging DLLs into IE itself seems a bit sneaky/unnecessary," wrote one newsgroup participant on Mar. 16. The Wurld Media BHO operates in IE even when the Morpheus application is not running. In Newsbytes testing, uninstalling Morpheus appeared to remove the Wurld Media BHO. (Incorrect, according to reports from divideBYzero and as Speedy 3D reports "it does not come off after one uninstalls Morpheus either&quot. According to Microsoft's support site, browser helper objects can be disabled within IE from the Internet Options section of the browser's Tools menu. By clicking on the Advanced tab and unchecking the box that says "Enable third-party browser extensions," the browser helper objects will be disabled at the next restart, Microsoft said. Otherwise, read the additional info in the "read more" part of this posting for complete details on how to get rid of this "pest"!

 

[amitech]

Thanks for the background info linney,

I've investiagted further I have found that BHO Cop does seem to work with Win XP (But it's GUI Looks simpler than the screen shots I've seen) - No Crashes etc
Any way, I have also discovered that my little wonders (Kids) had Kazza installed on this sytem too. BHO Cop identified a DLL By ESD Technologies - Any way dissabling that seems to have cured my problem.

An independant confirmation of similar foindings is here on this Google NG.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...c289eb%2454e57940%242ae2c90a%40phx.gbl&rnum=1

Thanks,

Jim. UK.