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The best program to remove an errant Browser Help Object is HijackThis. This program was originally designed to remove homepage hijackers and gradually morphed into an all-around removal tool for everything. If there’s any one tool that I couldn’t part with it’s HJT.
To start, download HijackThis 1991. Once you’ve got it, open it. Click button that says “Do a system scan only”. Following that, scroll down to items labeled 02 – BHO. Remove anything here that looks suspicious. Internet Explorer does not require any BHO’s to run. Just keep an eye on path that it loads from, and name of file. A legitimate one will be fairly easy to spot, as it’ll have a legit title and OK looking path.
If filename looks like it was randomly made, like ASGSRT32.DLL or whatnot then there’s a good 90% chance that it’s bad. Even if you do remove one that’s good, you can always use restore feature of HJT to bring it back.
If you need any other HijackThis help then read previous link.
Kevin Souter is a full time computer repair technician. He also operates a free spyware removal site, as well as a general computer repair site.