Title: Comet Cursor

Type: Browser Plugins

Remove Comet Cursor. Removal instructions

Severity scale:

(15 / 100)

Comet Cursor is a cursor-changing utility that offers thousands of third-party Windows mouse cursors. It includes an Internet Explorer toolbar that can be used to search the web. However, it also tracks user activity in the Internet and transfers gathered data to its home server. Comet Cursor is bundled with ad-supported software, but also can be manually installed. The program creates a directory, drops files in it and modifies the registry to register itself as a web browser add-on. It comes with the uninstaller.

Comet Cursor properties:
• Connects itself to the internet
• Stays resident in background

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Comet Cursor manual removal:

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Kill processes:
comet.exe, csinstall.exe, cstray.exe

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Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Comet Systems
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper
Objects\{D14D6793-9B65-11D3-80B6-00500487BDBA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{04FC63F8-EE34-4283-8941-4A11BF17C447}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{062EFA85-8BBB-11D3-80D0-00500487B1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0922EC1A-9EC7-11D3-80B9-00500487BDBA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0E42926E-96D8-11D3-80D5-00500487B1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0E429272-96D8-11D3-80D5-00500487B1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{15940F5D-D8BD-49BC-851D-29DCFB166950}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1678F7E1-C422-11D0-AD7D-00400515CAAA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{212B99A1-9CF6-11D3-80B7-0500487BDBA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{37D026C3-84D7-4AC5-A026-C08B7907CACF}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{39E01E09-2B45-11D4-810D-00500487D1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4320AEEB-2F2A-4F97-B573-232C6576AA3A}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4AA5D526-44D5-4AF6-AC53-5CE1534CC40B}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6F2D6A5E-E3E7-4F18-887C-C777650DEF57}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{64726B8A-0CBE-4F80-90B7-1CA1BC69FCFB}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7BE4E188-DD04-47E4-8C1B-4AA330B18D9F}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7F0F5DA7-84CB-11D4-8137-00500487B1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{827A2ECE-D76F-4BCC-82ED-D6A287C11211}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{8AE68B04-D492-4474-A6E2-FD5FE884F4B1}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{90C61707-C8F8-43DB-A25C-C1F4B18EE41E}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{941228B3-3AD1-4633-A9F5-59154CB362D4}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A335D52F-D489-472D-9EAA-D72A40AAF7CA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A5EA242A-442E-4ECB-9CAC-97037CCD6EC6}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{C38FC998-3B1B-4F59-A710-5A6C9CF8BD92}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CBE7D5E7-90A2-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CD74B159-A1D3-11D3-80BC-0500487BDBA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D14D6793-9B65-11D3-80B6-00500487BDBA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DFA771A5-2138-48EE-A58E-F782C879AF8E}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E28FCB54-8C8E-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E3A6E4B2-16B4-4F56-A98A-5F4DE04CA2BE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E5C39DB-9DCC-11D3-80D6-00500487D1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EA5BB125-A227-40A7-BCAA-652D497C2F65}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EB07A6D4-8E36-11D4-8138-00500487B1C5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EDC4193F-34AD-4D07-AA87-E3FDB89E3E76}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EDEE4CCB-0913-4CC9-8EA9-3DDD87AB8BDE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F147AE85-1855-4182-BE3A-174160995A40}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FE6BC4EF-5676-484B-88AE-883323913256}

HELP:
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Delete files:
comet.exe, csinstall.exe, cstray.exe, cscore.dll, csbho.dll, csietb.dll, comutil.dll, csapputil.dll, csbrange.dll, csctx.dll, cseng.dll, csinst.dll, fileutil.dll

HELP:
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Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\Comet

Information added: 2004-03-19 10:00:00
Information updated: 2005-08-01 05:45:15

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Comet tracks visits to web sites that use its cursors, with an ID unique to each installation. However since the sites must deliberately include the Comet code in each page, this isn't much different to third-party advertising banners with cookies.

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