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

SpyBHORemover helps in quick identification and removal of such spy BHO's present in the system. It not only performs heuristic based threat analysis but also provides Online Threat Verification mechanism which makes it easy to differentiate between legitimate and malicious BHOs.

Spy BHO Remover works on wide range of platforms starting from Windows Vista to Windows 11.

• Automatically scan & analyze all installed and previously removed BHOs instantly.
• 'Advanced Threat Analysis' for each installed BHO using the built-in heuristic mechanism.
• Color based threat representation for quick identification and separation of BHOs based on various threat levels.
• Shows all running processes having the selected BHO DLL
• Unique feature to completely enable/disable ALL installed BHOs for the current user at one shot.
• 'Online Threat Verification' of malicious BHO using any of the following popular online portals.
  • VirusTotal (www.VirusTotal.com)
  • ProcessLibrary (www.ProcessLibrary.com)
• One click BHO removal option to remove the selected BHO instantly.
• Right click menu option for all the lists for quickly execution desired action.
• View detailed properties of selected BHO DLL through double click or right click menu options.
• Quickly jump to corresponding BHO location in Registry using Regedit tool for selected BHO.
• Generate the complete BHO scan report along with threat analysis information to standard HTML/CSV format for offline analysis.
• Displays detailed information for each installed BHO
  • BHO Class Name
  • Threat Analysis Information
  • Company
  • Product Name
  • Install Date
  • CLSID of the BHO
  • BHO File Path

• Run SpyBHORemover on your system and it will automatically list all installed BHO's on the system as shown in the screenshot 1 below.
• It shows each of the installed BHO with different colors based on the threat levels which helps in distinguishing between malicious and legitimate BHO.
• Once you click on any of the BHO, it will display the 'Process List' at the bottom showing all the running processes having the selected BHO DLL.
• Then you can choose to Kill such process using right click menu options.
• For any suspicious BHO you can right click on its entry which will display popup menu with more options. Then you can choose 'Check online' option to perform online threat verification.
• To remove any of the malicious BHO, just click on 'Remove' button which will instantly disable it
• Alternatively you can enable/disable all BHO's at one shot using the 'Enable/Disable BHO' button at the bottom.
• Finally you can export the entire scan report to HTML file by clicking on 'Export' button and then select the type of file from the drop down box of 'Save File Dialog'

All the installed 'Browser Helper Objects' are present at following Registry location

In order to completely remove the BHO from the system one has to remove all these registry entries. However SpyBHORemover does not remove all these entries but only the main entry from install location to disable the BHO and stores it in the following backup registry location

In case of malicious BHO it is advised to completely remove these registry entries and delete BHO file from the system manually.