Found Bridge.dll and Placeed in Quarentine

My AVG scanner has placed the bridge.dll file in the vault. This file
was found in Windowns\downloads . what does this file do? Why does
the system need it or does it really need it?

J. P. Willis wrote:

> My AVG scanner has placed the bridge.dll file in the vault. This file
> was found in Windowns\downloads . what does this file do? Why does
> the system need it or does it really need it?

everything i looked at in google suggests it's part of a trojan, not
part of windows...

and really, why would you assume a file in a directory called
"downloads" was part of the operating system?

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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:10:51 GMT, J. P. Willis <jopwill@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> My AVG scanner has placed the bridge.dll file in the vault. This file
> was found in Windowns\downloads . what does this file do? Why does
> the system need it or does it really need it?

It's an adware "Browser Helper Object".

See http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/...ites_bridge.asp

I'd also suggest getting, installing, downloading the updates,
and then running both
Spybot Search & Destroy from
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?...n&page=download
and Lavasoft's Adaware from
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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