XP error mssg

[Billie]

Every time XP loads I get a popup stating, "Error loading
C:/WINDOWS/bxxs5.DLL specified module could not be found".
I can not find this listed on any of the faq's or other
self help areas. What is this? Is it crutial? How do I fix it?
Please help.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi Billie,
remove this:-
http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/b/bookedspace.asp

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[t.cruise]

Previously posted by Mike Maltby MS-MVP

BXXS5.DLL is a malicious file associated with the BookedSpace parasite. For
more details including how to remove this pest see
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/BookedSpace.html and also
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/bookedspace/index.phtml. I
suspect however that your antivirus application may have already removed
BXXS5.DLL from your system but would nevertheless strongly recommend you to
check out the two articles I mentioned.

Use MSConfig (Start, Run, enter MSConfig in the box and click OK), open the
Startup tab and uncheck the box to the left of the line containing a reference
to BXXS5.DLL. OK and Apply and reboot. Hopefully this should prevent you
seeing the message in future.

This would probably be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free
Ad-Aware 6.0 from Lavasoft (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and
also SpyBot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and use them
to check your system for other commercial parasites remembering that they are
only as good as when you last updated their reference files. I also use a
program called BHOCaptor (http://www.xcaptor.org) that checks for unwanted
Browser Help Objects and SpywareBlaster
(http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.

Then finally there is CWShredder
(http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip) which is the best way
of getting rid of the many forms of the CoolWebSearch hijacker details of
which can be found at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
and also http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp.