Remove Surf SideKick. Description and removal instructions

 
Title: Surf SideKick

Type: Adware
Severity scale:Surf SideKick severity is 28  (28 / 100)
 
Surf SideKick is an adware program that displays commercial advertisements and pop-ups, changes web browser's default error page, modifies search settings and opens marketing and advertising web sites. In also can download and install third-party adware programs or send out system information. Surf SideKick must be manually installed. It automatically runs on every Windows startup.


Surf SideKick properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Surf SideKick removal:

remover for Surf SideKick

Surf SideKick manual removal:

Kill processes:
ssk.exe, sskupdater.exe
Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SurfSideKick[XVS]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SurfSideKick[XVS]
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{000AB0005-FF12-42C2-8DF5-39E12E5F9C91}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{02EE5B04-F144-47BB-83FB-A60BD91B74A9}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CA0E28FA-1AFD-4C21-A8DC-70EB5BE2F076}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SurfSideKick
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SurfSideKick
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{000AB0005-FF12-42C2-8DF5-39E12E5F9C91}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{02EE5B04-F144-47BB-83FB-A60BD91B74A9}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{CA0E28FA-1AFD-4C21-A8DC-70EB5BE2F076}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UrlSearchHooks\{02EE5B04-F144-47BB-83FB-A60BD91B74A9}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UrlSearchHooks\{CA0E28FA-1AFD-4C21-A8DC-70EB5BE2F076}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Surf Sidekick
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Surf Sidekick_is1
Delete files:
ssk.exe, sskupdater.exe, sskcore.dll, sskbho.dll
Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\SurfSideKick [XVS]
Misc:
[XVS] is the version number.

Other programs to remove Surf SideKick:

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

Information added: 31/08/05
Information updated: 15/11/06

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1. by Guest. 2006-11-15 13:11:22
im trying this out right now. the automatic removal, i have adaware and spybot and zone alarm and known of them removed it hopefully this works


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