Re: BHO

From: Vanguard (use_ReplyTo_at_domain.invalid)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:38:56 -0600

"jopa66" <jopa66@hotmail.com.no.spam.me> wrote in message
news:uQXmX9oGFHA.1996@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Is this what you're referring to?
>
> "You acknowledge that your use of the SOFTWARE PACKAGE may disable
> third party applications and functionality,...."
>
> What this program does is put a number of entries to known malware
> sites into the "Restricted Sites" zone of IE. Now, if/when you go to
> any of these sites, their ability to do anything to your system is
> severely restricted, depending on your setup of this zone. This helps
> protect you from "drive by" Active X installs among other things.
> Reccommendation - download and install.

SpywareBlaster also adds killbit registry entries which prevent the
install or execution of ActiveX controls. Presumably the ones in their
killbit list are actually bad for you. However, the purpose of these
killbits is to disable 3rd party software. So if you were one that
truly but for some unusual reason wanted to have some particular malware
to function on your system, SpywareBlaster's addition of the killbit
registry entry for it will prevent you from using it. However, you
could select to have SpywareBlaster add all the other killbit entries
and discard the one for your particular product.

>> and Two, When do you allow BHO's onto your systems?
>
> BHO's - extra Toolbars and buttons in IE - can be good or bad. Most of
> these (maybe all) are Active X controls and most of the bad ones will
> be blocked by Spyware Blaster. You might want things like Google
> Toolbar, IE SpellCheck, Copernic etc. If in doubt about any Toolbar -
> do some research.

You can use BHO Demon or WinPatrol to check what BHOs have been
installed. It's up to you whether you want them installed, but then it
was up to you to decide to let them install in the first place.

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