Naupoint Toolbar

[Lee]

I have two W2K Pro SP4 with all security updates that have
become infected with the naupoint toolbar. How do you
remove it? How do you prevent getting infected by it in
the first place. Spybot Search & Destroy and the free
AdAware don't remove it. Hijack This finds to registry
entries for it, but when you delete those entries and
reboot, the entries and the toolbar come right back. Any
insight into this would be appreciated.
-Lee

 

[Altrüs]

Hi,

Seeing as you've covered the AdAware and Hijack This
settings, you may want to consider the significant
probability that this is caused by a BHO's (Browser Helper
Object) may be causing these problems.

These 3rd party browser extensions are usually manifested as
toolbars. Removing them isn't too hard.

First, open your control panel, and navigate to your
Internet Options.

Click on the Advanced Tab, and uncheck the

'Enable third-party browser extensions (requires restart)'.

After unchecking the box, download BHOCop. It's available,
free, here:

http://support.honour.ca/bin/bhocop.zip

After installing the program, you can use it to selectively
remove the object.

This should help your situation,

Best regards,

Altrus


: I have two W2K Pro SP4 with all security updates that have
: become infected with the naupoint toolbar. How do you
: remove it? How do you prevent getting infected by it in
: the first place. Spybot Search & Destroy and the free
: AdAware don't remove it. Hijack This finds to registry
: entries for it, but when you delete those entries and
: reboot, the entries and the toolbar come right back. Any
: insight into this would be appreciated.
: -Lee

 

[P. Thompson]

I have two W2K Pro SP4 with all security updates that have
become infected with the naupoint toolbar. How do you
remove it? How do you prevent getting infected by it in
the first place. Spybot Search & Destroy and the free
AdAware don't remove it. Hijack This finds to registry
entries for it, but when you delete those entries and
reboot, the entries and the toolbar come right back. Any
insight into this would be appreciated.
-Lee

Naupoint is evil. Close out IE, delete the entries referencing
"Naupoint" with REGEDT32 and search and delete anything referencing

4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-95BE-B378BA9CB52D

(which is Naupointbar.dll, NAUPOI~*.DLL - Naupoint toolbar,
http://www.security-forums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17666)
it should go away.

Adaware does not handle it yet (although I sent them a copy of the cab
file that the spyware site tricked me to install it with: it claimed it
was a new copy of the infernal Macromedia Flash player)

Don't ask about it on the Adaware forums, the petty bureaucrat moderators
will step you through their standard flowchart of steps that are useless
if adaware can't see the problem and if you suggest the above they'll get
mad at you.

Someone mentioned it might be a BHO (browser help object). It is, and I
suspect that BHOdemon might kill it but did not think to try it at the
time.

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