Remove Expand. Description and removal instructions

 
Title: Expand

Type: Adware
Severity scale:Expand severity is 23  (23 / 100)
 
Expand adware records keywords the user enters into popular Internet search engines. The program installs additional Internet Explorer toolbar, which displays advertising links based on logged keywords. Expand must be manually installed. Once executed, it creates several files in the default system directory (C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Winnt\System32) and modifies the registry in order to register itself as web browser add-on. Expand runs every time the user opens Internet Explorer.


Expand properties:
• Shows commercial adverts
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Expand removal:

remover for Expand

Expand manual removal:

Kill processes:
sidebar.exe, reg2.exe
Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\MyGeek.Com
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\BarBHO.Class1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C431BF1E-9E71-4BB6-9C4E-8496D158DB1F}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{CD2A865B-6C0F-44F9-BAA1-7CDB31E04BC8}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{7BD45240-7166-4768-A845-8CE375C5E096}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{9F9D3D1F-E697-4A86-90C7-58CECF6A2634}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{47D616A1-B588-45D1-AD71-33AC15FB6940}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{48977F6E-4120-4F88-8C4B-A6399BD0DD08}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{CD2A865B-6C0F-44F9-BAA1-7CDB31E04BC8}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Explorer Bars\{C431BF1E-9E71-4BB6-9C4E-8496D158DB1F}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\eXpand Search_is1
Delete files:
sidebar.exe, reg2.exe, barbho.dll, mygeek.dll, mygeekremove.exe

Other programs to remove Expand:

• SUPERAntiSpyware - Review - Download
• CounterSpy - Review - Download
• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 12/08/05
Information updated: 12/08/05

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