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Comet Systems

Overview

Category

 Hijacker: Any software that resets your browser's settings to point to other sites. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower.

Browser Helper Object:  (BHO). A component that Internet Explorer will load whenever it starts, shares IE's memory context, can perform any action on the available windows and modules. A BHO can detect events, create windows to display additional information on a viewed page, monitor messages and actions. Microsoft calls it "a spy we send to infiltrate the browser's land." BHOs are not stopped by personal firewalls, because they are seen by the firewall as your browser itself. Some exploits of this technology search all pages you view in IE and replace banner advertisements with other ads. Some monitor and report on your actions. Some change your home page.

Search Hijacker:  Any software that resets your browser's settings to point to other sites when you perform a search. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower. Search results when such a hijacker is running will sometimes differ from non-hijacked results.

Variants

   CometCursor ·

Reasons For Retention

 Changes browser settings other than homepage, without user permission.
 

Origins

 

Author

 Comet Systems

Others By This Author

  Backdoor.Pointex · Comet DMServer · CometCursor · TrojanDownloader.Win32.Agent.h · Unauthorized access via buffer overrun in talkd ·

Vendor

 Companies that have survived on the Internet usually fall into two categories: those whose business models took off early ù like eBay and Amazon ù and those who succeeded after reinventing themselves in response to the rapidly changing Internet economy. Comet proudly counts itself in this latter camp: having started with a simple cursor-changing product, the company has gone on to build a highly profitable business with four diversified product lines. While many startups spent their venture capital on marketing, Comet put its money into R&D. While they ran Super Bowl ads, Comet quietly employed a team of hardcore software programmers in an old warehouse in lower Manhattan and built an unprecedented infrastructure for a new class of consumer software applications. After six years of unglamorous engineering, the result is Genesis, a versatile platform and rapid application development environment that powers all of Comet's products. Today, as the software industry contracts, Comet is growing. In the past year, we have been hiring exceptional people and redoubling our investments in new products. In fact, we recently funded a skunkworks project in Boston to develop innovative new applications using the Genesis toolset, the first of which ù Impulse ù will soon be available for download. Key to our success has been attracting and keeping a small, tight-knit team of dedicated people with multidisciplinary backgrounds. Unlike so many Internet startups, Comet's core founding team and many of the people we hired in 1997 and 1998 are still at the company and have the harmonicas to prove it.

Mailing Address

 Comet Systems, Inc. 143 Varick Street New York, NY 10013

Phone:

 212-231-2000

URL

 http://www.cometsystems.com]

Language

 English

Date of Origin

 Variants from April, 2002 to June, 2005
 

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

 Follow these steps to remove Comet Systems from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

 Stop Running Processes:

Kill these running processes with Task Manager:



Unregister DLLs:

Unregister these DLLs with Regsvr32, then reboot:



Clean Registry:

Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:



Remove Files:

Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:



Remove Directories:

Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:



Restore Settings:

After following the instructions above, you will still need to restore your original settings and prevent this from happening again.
 
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