What is Comet Cursor and how to remove this spyware
Comet Cursor is a cursor-changing utility that offers thousands of third-party Windows mouse cursors. It includes an Internet Explorer toolbar that can be used to search the web. However, it also tracks user activity in the Internet and transfers gathered data to its home server. Comet Cursor is bundled with ad-supported software, but also can be manually installed. The program creates a directory, drops files in it and modifies the registry to register itself as a web browser add-on. It comes with the uninstaller.
How to remove Comet Cursor - Comet Cursor
Instructions
Follow these removal instructions to remove Comet Cursor:
- Click Start > Settings > Control Panel
- Double-click the "Add/Remove Programs"
- Select the entry "Comet- Comet Cursor 3.0".
- Click the "Add/Remove"
- Follow the instructions that appear
Kill processes:
comet.exe, csinstall.exe, cstray.exe
Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Comet Systems
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper
Objects\D14D6793-9B65-11D3-80B6-00500487BDBA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDFC63F8-EE34-4283-8941-4A11BF17C447
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID2EFA85-8BBB-11D3-80D0-00500487B1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID22EC1A-9EC7-11D3-80B9-00500487BDBA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDE42926E-96D8-11D3-80D5-00500487B1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDE429272-96D8-11D3-80D5-00500487B1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID940F5D-D8BD-49BC-851D-29DCFB166950
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID78F7E1-C422-11D0-AD7D-00400515CAAA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID2B99A1-9CF6-11D3-80B7-0500487BDBA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDD026C3-84D7-4AC5-A026-C08B7907CACF
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDE01E09-2B45-11D4-810D-00500487D1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID20AEEB-2F2A-4F97-B573-232C6576AA3A
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDAA5D526-44D5-4AF6-AC53-5CE1534CC40B
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDF2D6A5E-E3E7-4F18-887C-C777650DEF57
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID726B8A-0CBE-4F80-90B7-1CA1BC69FCFB
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDBE4E188-DD04-47E4-8C1B-4AA330B18D9F
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDF0F5DA7-84CB-11D4-8137-00500487B1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID7A2ECE-D76F-4BCC-82ED-D6A287C11211
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDAE68B04-D492-4474-A6E2-FD5FE884F4B1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSIDC61707-C8F8-43DB-A25C-C1F4B18EE41E
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID1228B3-3AD1-4633-A9F5-59154CB362D4
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\A335D52F-D489-472D-9EAA-D72A40AAF7CA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\A5EA242A-442E-4ECB-9CAC-97037CCD6EC6
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\C38FC998-3B1B-4F59-A710-5A6C9CF8BD92
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\CBE7D5E7-90A2-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\CD74B159-A1D3-11D3-80BC-0500487BDBA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\D14D6793-9B65-11D3-80B6-00500487BDBA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\DFA771A5-2138-48EE-A58E-F782C879AF8E
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\E28FCB54-8C8E-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\E3A6E4B2-16B4-4F56-A98A-5F4DE04CA2BE
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\E5C39DB-9DCC-11D3-80D6-00500487D1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\EA5BB125-A227-40A7-BCAA-652D497C2F65
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\EB07A6D4-8E36-11D4-8138-00500487B1C5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\EDC4193F-34AD-4D07-AA87-E3FDB89E3E76
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\EDEE4CCB-0913-4CC9-8EA9-3DDD87AB8BDE
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\F147AE85-1855-4182-BE3A-174160995A40
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\FE6BC4EF-5676-484B-88AE-883323913256
Delete files:
comet.exe, csinstall.exe, cstray.exe, cscore.dll, csbho.dll, csietb.dll, comutil.dll, csapputil.dll, csbrange.dll, csctx.dll, cseng.dll, csinst.dll, fileutil.dll
Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\Comet |