Help removing buddy.exe

[[1ponders]]

I've tried searching the net for methods to remove this nasty piece of work and I'm continually left with :jawdrop: Do any of you gurus here know of a relatively simple way of getting rid of this (no profanity but extremely upsetting) software along with the ceres.dll that seems to go with it? :mad2: :mad2: :tasdevil: :tasdevil: :mad2: :mad2: :bashcomp:

[ving]

oh gee... I had this years ago. if you can move it to a diferent location maybe?

i cant remember... i'll have a squiz

[[1ponders]]

It's got its hooks in everywhere apparently ving. People (and I use that term loosely) that develop this sort of stuff need things done to them!!!!

[ving]

ok, in add/remove progs is there anything relating to "bonzai buddy"? if so get rid of that...
the BB site say that if there are files left after an uninstall then it wasnt a clean one. you should reinstall and uninstall again.

i am asuming that buddy.exe is from bonsia buddy tho.

[ving]

it is prolly spyware from that company so maybe spybot will remove it?

[[1ponders]]

I've tried that. Plus I've sone a search for buddy.exe files and ceres.dll files and deleted them. Unfortunately unless I get the registry entries as well it just keeps coming back. Fortunately not on this machine, its entrenched on the family machine.

[ving]

ok you can stop looking i found it. well its information on it...
http://www.webhelper4u.com/tnewswritigs/spear_2buddy_exe.html <--has registry entries on it
from what i gather most people are just useing an add blocker to stop it. google toolbar has an add blocker in built as does the yahoo toolbar. they will both stop the adds popping up and you get a nifty searchbar with it :)

[[1ponders]]

I've been able to block it with Zone Alarm but I want to get rid of it.

[acropolite]

Try searching the registry for any associated entries and deleting them. I've usually been able to sucessfully remove most spyware that way. I've also found that doing a google search on whatever spyware it is will (usually) give a solution. I did however get one spyware nasty around 12 months ago, the damn thing kept respawning with different filenames and it nobbled most of the tools necessary to remove it (search etc). There were over 80 known variants listed on the web none of which matched mine. In the end after two days of registry hacking I simply gave up and reloaded my OS from scratch. :bashcomp:

[[1ponders]]

Thanks Phil but I did do a couple of google searches and that's where I started to get bogged down. There was some fairly fancy (for me) registry surgery involved that I didn't feel comfortable with. Fortunately I found a program tonight (gotta love google) called "Super Ad Blocker" that gives a 15 day free trial that seems to have managed to strip the :) troublesome pesky :) thing out:P, along with a couple of other fairly pungent ones I'd heard about but didn't know I'd contracted.

[asimov]

I found this tonite. Looks like youv'e killed it though...........
http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=1939

[[1ponders]]

I certainly hope so John. Thanks for the link

[elusiver]

pest patrol is the anti spyware i use.. that and symantec corporate anti virus.. both do well at blocking out the nasties.

el :)

[RAJAH235]

Spywareblaster & Hijackthis are good, as is Spybot & Ad-aware. Great link. Have B/M'd it.
el, FWIW, he doesn't own them,(elect stores), anymore. Hasn't done for years. I think he may get royalties tho!. :D L.

[asimov]

I use avast4 / spy-bot search & destroy / zone alarm / google pop-up blocker

[[1ponders]]

John I use spy-bot, ad-aware, zonealarm and google pop-up blocker and it stll got through. plus ad-aware and spy-bot didn't remove it once it got in. Suprer-ad blocer did the trick though. Its a bit slow bout seems to be pretty thorough

[Sausageman]

Same here, spybot, ad-aware, zone alarm and AVG.
I ended up doing a regedit and clearing out the registry files.
WARNING......
Don't mess with the registry files if you have never been taught how.
You can stuff up good programs with one click of the mouse.

Sometimes there is only one answer, yep, you got it, a Hard drive wipe and re-load.
But that is the very last resort.

Mike

[cahullian]

does system restore work? Thats what i have been doing as i have teenage sons and I dont know or want to know what they are looking at when Im not home but when things go weird and funky I just restore my pc to an eirlier setting date and everything is hunky dory again. Or am I kidding myself?

[elusiver]

sys restore restores u'r reg but physical files remain on the hdd.. av and antio spy apps are good for minor prevention.. but nothings fool proof.. so i have a ghost image of my system drive.. has all my apps(office, photoshop, illus and the rest that i use) and drivers already installed. So i usually go the wipe reinstall method... only takes me less than 5 minutes to go from buggered system to brand new :) Plus I keep all my favourites online and email and my documents mapped to another hdd.. so i never find myself in the situation where i've reinstalled but forgotten to back up a file.

el :)
el :)