Friday
2008-11-29, 19:45
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Gooochi.BHO" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
trojan
Description:
The Gooochi.BHO pretends to be an optimizer add-on for the Internet Explorer. It connects to the internet in background, transmits data to its malicious websites and shows pop up advertisment using a hidden instance of the Internet Explorer. Gooochi.BHO also installs itself to the system start.
Supposed Functionality:
supposed to be a browser enhancer
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd), RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Entries named "{241e82d5-a589-7cba-6a87-23a3b13856dc}".
Files:
Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) to remove them.
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Delete the registry key "{ffffaa6b-dee3-706b-2596-c980555078a5}" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\".
Delete the registry key "{6975f2a2-a292-7558-8b12-82ddedd8a70a}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
Delete the registry key "{6975f2a2-a292-7558-8b12-82ddedd8a70a}" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\".
If Gooochi.BHO uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
trojan
Description:
The Gooochi.BHO pretends to be an optimizer add-on for the Internet Explorer. It connects to the internet in background, transmits data to its malicious websites and shows pop up advertisment using a hidden instance of the Internet Explorer. Gooochi.BHO also installs itself to the system start.
Supposed Functionality:
supposed to be a browser enhancer
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd), RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Entries named "{241e82d5-a589-7cba-6a87-23a3b13856dc}".
Files:
Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) to remove them.
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Delete the registry key "{ffffaa6b-dee3-706b-2596-c980555078a5}" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\".
Delete the registry key "{6975f2a2-a292-7558-8b12-82ddedd8a70a}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
Delete the registry key "{6975f2a2-a292-7558-8b12-82ddedd8a70a}" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\".
If Gooochi.BHO uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.