Okay... I know I just emerged from the dark ages and only yesterday installed Spybot. It seems like a very good program. I was amazed how many spys have invaded my computer.

What little I know of spyware, I know that "Xupiter" is a devil. Spybot can not remove it from my computer, everything else was cleaned up. I have searched high and low and no where can I find the actual program in my files. The only item I can find is the "Uninstall Xupiter" in the "add/remove programs" section.

My question then is... how do you find the file and remove the Xupiter program???

Thanks for any inputs.

 

http://www.pchell.com/support/xupiter.shtml

 

drunkiq,

Thanks for the site... I've already downloaded spybot and it will not remove Xupiter. Guess that I need to remove it manually but the manual delete link is dead. What's next other than buying a program. Adware etc only scan for free... you have to buy it to remove anything.

 

came up fine here AZ.... be careful (do a registry backup first!).

Manual removal

Open the registry (from the Start menu, click Run and enter regedit) and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\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.d ll"
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.d ll"
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).