the cleaner found BDE Trojen

[Sunn]

when I used the cleaner to look for antivirus simply because my sytem was slow ans freezing up all the time, slow IE ect..

The cleaner found BDE Trojen (compliments of Kazaa.) it said.
The cleaner removed it, so am I good to go now?
Or do I need to search for any other bde folders.
.. I also updated my win/me.
I am hoping this helps.
Any further help or sugestions would be greatly appreciated

[Strawbs]

since you're using ME, the virus could be nesting in your "system restore" folder, this folder can't be edited, so you would need to disable system restore and reboot to purge the folder, then re-enable it and reboot again, virus scan again to make sure it's gone.

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[htwild1]

also check your windows system folder. bde and b3d?? folders need to be deleted.

use kaza lite version. it is better.

[Sunn]

On a search I found in windows/system these ....

msxBDE40.dll
MSBDE40.dll
bdeinsta25.dll


I don't know weather or not to be conerned about these.

In looking up the BDE,,I did find however..Info on how Kazaa secretly hid this in there install package!
still wanting to know about the .dll's though
-- for more on Kazaa and their secret use this link


http://www.thetechhandbook.com/index.php

[Strawbs]

that's very good detective work sunn , and a fascinating read as well, it's amazing that these companies could for one minute think that thier activities are legal, this altnet program is not only an invasion of privacy, but a virus to boot, I won't have these ppl stealing my processing power, and what's to stop them from kicking ppl off thier own computers completely or downloading sensitive information. I'm going to load up a second firewall.

Thanx for the pointer.

[RayH]

When people want to know where hackers get their ideas they can walk into anyone's computer and do what they want to do, they should note these practices by people in legitimate business!

When people in business have no regards for our privacy and only their money, what do you expect?

[Sunn]

anyone know if it is safe to get rid of these?

msxBDE40.dll
MSBDE40.dll
bdeinsta25.dll


You are very welcome, wanted you all to be aware of whats happening, I was able to remove the BDE with the cleaner.

[aldale]

Have to say I have some reservations as to accuracy of the cleaner, it persists in flagging a particular .exe on my system as syst trojan while three other trojan scanners give it the all
clear. I'm going to mail the author about it but I'm pretty sure its a false alarm.

[Rocketmech]

msxBDE40.dll is ok , the other two are suspect. I would rename them, restart, run all my apps to see if I have a issue, if all is aok then I delete.

[Johnny Fist]

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-875274.html

I found some info on removing some Kazaa garbage at cnet.com. I hope that link is of benefit to somebody out there.

[Sunn]

Thanks for the link Johnny one of the .dll I was questioning was in there...

My opinion Kazaa. is a good program once you remove the spyware and their BDE program .

[Aarmenaa]

I really like Kazaa, I just can't stand for their bull, though. Anyone know another program with as many users? I've experimented with a few, like Imesh. Imesh is pretty good, but I have my suspicions about their installers too.

-Aarmenaa