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I am very sorry, but BHODemon is currently on hiatus, as I no longer have the time to devote to it (due to a house fire). You will not be able to download updates or upload reports, and I will no longer be answering emails. At some point, BHODemon may return. I would like to thank everyone for their support over the years.BHODemon 2.0 got mentioned at the SANS Internet Storm Centerand Slashdottedon June 29, 2004! And check us out on NPR(National Public Radio) - we're at about the four-minute mark! And ZDNetAustralia talks about us too! And so did Deutschlandfunk, thenationwide German public broadcasting station!
Try BHODemon - it's Free!Think ofBHODemon as a guardian for your Internet Explorer browser: it protects you from unknown Browser HelperObjects (BHOs), by letting youenable/disable them individually. It also monitors your Registry andalerts you when a BHO is installed. Best of all, BHODemon knows about themost common BHOs - the good ones, and the not-so-good ones!
BHODemon is free, runs in the"tray" area, and works on Windows 95 or later operating systems (inother words, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT4,Windows 2000, and Windows XP).
What is a Browser Helper Object?A Browser Helper Object, or BHO, isjust a small program that runs automatically every time you start your Internet browser. Usually, a BHO is installed on your system by another software program. For example, Go!Zilla, the downloadingutility, installs a BHO created by Radiate(formerly Aureate Media); this BHO trackswhich advertisements you see as you surf the Web.
The natural question is, what doBHOs do? The technical answer is "anything", but generally, itwill have something to do with helping you browse the Internet. Ofcourse, some BHOs are what is called "ad-ware" or "spyware":they do things like monitor the websites you visit and report this data back totheir creators.
Althoughmany people are extremely concerned about them because of the privacy issue, BHOs arenot necessarily bad things,and most of them are well-intentioned and beneficial. For example, the P3P("Platform for Privacy Preferences") program spearheaded by the W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) and major vendors, including Microsoft, AT&T,and IBM, will be delivered as a BHO. Some BHOs, however, are placedsecretly on your system, and there is certainly no technical reason why theycould not be programmed to send information about your system (or your websurfing habits) over the Internet without your knowledge.
Also,there is no restriction on what a BHO can do your system; it can do anything anyother program can do: read or write (or delete) anything on your system. Usually, software is installed on your system explicitly by you; when you do so,you are, in effect, saying that you trust the vendor. BHOs, however, havea history of being installed without the users knowledge (fine printnotwithstanding)
Giventhat (a) BHOs can do absolutely anything to your system, and (b) they are ofteninstalled without your knowledge, there is a distinct potential for abuse byvendors. The problem is, until now you hadno way of knowing which BHOs are on your machine, who put them there, and whatthey do. This is what BHODemon does - it lets you easily manage your BHOs,and tells you what each BHO on your system is doing.
What does BHODemon do?BHODemonscans your Registry for BHOs, and presents any it finds in a list. Byhighlighting a BHO in this list, and clicking the "Details" button,you can see information about this BHO, and even disable it if you wish. BHOs are disabled by simply renaming the DLL that houses them. By renamingthe DLL, instead of deleting it, you have the option of enabling it later if youwish. Why would you want to do that? Because the program thatinstalled the BHO will not run if it can't find the DLL: Go!Zilla, for example, won'trun if you remove its BHOs.
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