Archive for July 19th, 2005

Complex parasites often use dynamically linked library files (DLLs) that contain code responsible for implementing certain harmful functions and required by threats to work as intended. Many browser hijackers and browser plugins consist only from DLL files, which are registered in the system and sometimes can be injected into some safe essential system services, so that it can be practically impossible to remove them manually or eliminate using automatic spyware removers. The way out is to unregister such DLLs and then simply delete them like ordinary files. More...