Xupiter

[kait]

Somehow, I got a program from hell on my computer in my
office called Xupiter. It has totally taken over I.E.
I have tried the uninstall program for Xupiter that MSFT
provided and it did help somewhat. I still have the
problem of when I want to log into any of my paid for
websites that require a password, I get a notice that
says to enable cookies. ( They are enabled already)
and none of these websites will recognize any of my
passwords. This is happening with every single website.
Example: Etrade, www.wallstreetcity.com, about 20 of
these types. Netscape will work however, I have a lot of
problems with stability when trying to run JAVA.
Other fixes that I have tried so far is rewriting the
suggested registries provided at different websites to
get rid of Xupiter. And I downloaded an adware/spyware
detector that I paid for but it loads into a file that
will not open the program and no matter where I tell it
to download to, it will not do it.
I also have tried to delete IE and reinstall it..haven't
had any success in that area either. Short of buying
another computer, I have run out of options.
I certainly would appreciate any help out there.

Sincerely,
Kait

 

[Patricko]

I found this hope it helpstry spybot alsoAdaware6, with the UPDATED reflist
should have taken care of it, not sure
what is going on with that. Spybot, as well, should take care of this pest.
As far as manual removal, Doxdesk provides the following info:
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Removal
The OrbitExplorer variant may have an uninstall available. Go to Add/Remove
Programs in the Control Panel, choose 'Orbit' and click 'Remove'.

Other variants have no built-in uninstall. An uninstaller is available
through ActiveX drive-by-download from Xupiter sites; reports suggest this
works for some but not all variants, and may leave a message on bootup that
Xupiter must be reinstalled.

The latest updates of Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware can remove all Xupiter
variants.

Manual removal
Open the registry (from the Start menu, click Run and enter regedit) and
find the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete the
entries 'XupiterStartup' and 'XupiterCfgLoader' (earlier variants),
'SQUpdatesChecker' and 'SQConfigChecker' (Sqwire variant) or 'OrbitUpdate'
and 'OrbitView' (OrbitExplorer variant).

Open a DOS command prompt window (Start->Programs->Accessories) and enter
the following commands to deregister the toolbar (Xupiter and BrowserWise
variants):

cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Xupiter\Updates\XupiterToolbar.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Xupiter\Updates\XTUpdate.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Xupiter\Updates\XTSearch.dll"
(The earliest variants of Xupiter didn't have the XTSearch.dll file, so
don't worry if this last command gives an error.)

For the 2003 variant, use:

cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Xupiter\XupiterToolbar.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Xupiter\XTUpdate.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Xupiter\XTSearch.dll"
For the Browser variant, use:

cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Browser\Updates\BrowserToolbar.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Browser\Updates\BWUpdate.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Browser\Updates\BWSearch.dll"
For the Sqwire variant, use:

cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Sqwire\t.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Sqwire\u.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Sqwire\s.dll"
For the OrbitExplorer variant, use:

cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Common Files\OE\toolbar.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Common Files\OE\redirector.dll"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\Common Files\OE\search.dll"
(On non-English versions of Windows, 'Program Files' and 'Common Files' may
be called something different. In that case you will have to change these
commands to match the name of these folders.)

Restart the computer and open the Program Files folder. Delete the
'Xupiter', 'Browser', 'Sqwire' or 'Orbit' folders, and in the OrbitExplorer
variant also the 'OE' folder inside Common Files. For the Sqwire and
OrbitExplorer variants, you should also open 'Downloaded Program Files' in
the Windows folder and remove the 'Loader class' entry if it is there.

You can now restore your home page (Internet Options->General->Home page)
and your search settings (Internet Options->Programs->Reset web settings).
You can also delete the settings to clean up if you like: open the registry
and delete the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xupiter,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SQ (Sqwire variant) or
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CLSID\{0FDA4D2B-7975-405d-8D7C-F5E2247EAE80}
(OrbitExplorer variant).

Links
The Xupiter, BrowserWise and Sqwire, OrbitExplorer sites are just more
bog-standard portals; their search features always return the same
collections of mostly irrelevant links.

Michelle Delio at Wired News make some interesting discoveries about the
people behind Xupiter.

The toolbar was developed by them based on generic toolbar code licensed
from Orion Studios (which is why this name appears on earlier variants of
XupiterToolbar.exe).
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Heirloom, old and hates pests

How do you uninstall this pesty spyware program? Please
provide where I may obtain correct information to
uninstall this program from my computer. Please help
ASAP!! I downloaded AD-aware 6.0 from lava soft with the
latest reference list executed the instructions as
directed and this did not work. Whats up with that?Post a follow-up to

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[Unnamed]

Somehow, I got a program from hell on my computer in my
office called Xupiter. It has totally taken over I.E.
I have tried the uninstall program for Xupiter that MSFT

snipped....

Adaware is not always successful at removing some spyware. You need to run
both Adaware (note version 6.181 as the other version 6 Adaware progs and
earlier than that are incompatible) and Spybot which you can get from
security.kolla.de and run Adaware first then run Spybot. That gets rid of
them.