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It is known that the browser helper objects are loaded each time the browser is started up. Such objects run in the same memory context as the browser and can perform any action on the available windows and modules. For ex., a browser helper object can install hooks to monitor messages and actions, etc.
Some BHOs are helpful, like the Adobe Acrobat or Google Toolbar Browser Helper Objects, but there could be malicious ones among them that will harm your computer, especially those planted by viruses or spyware. BhoScanner allows you to discover browser helper objects of your computer including parasites and trojans. BhoScanner gives you a quick look at the BHOs installed on Local or Remote PC, tells you by coloured icons ( green icon - safe, yellow icon - unknown, red icon - harmful ) whether specific BHO is known to be safe or harmful.
Freeware
http://www.nsauditor.com/anti_adware_spyware_tools/browser_helper_objects_scanner.html
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SpyBHORemover (previously called BHORemover) is the advanced tool to explore and eliminate malicious BHO's from the system. BHO stands for 'Browser Helper Objects' which are plugins written for 'Internet Explorer' to enhance its capabilities. Often this feature is being misused by many spyware programs to monitor user's browsing habits and to steal the users credentials silently. Also some of the BHO's slow down the system considerably.
SpyBHORemover helps in quick identification and elimination of such spy BHO's present in the system. It not only performs heuristic based threat analysis but also provides online threat verification mechanism which makes it easy to differentiate between legitimate and malicious BHOs.
Features:
Showing all the running processes haviing the selected BHO DLL along with option to Kill such process or Remove BHO DLL from it.
Improved Threat Analysis with better heuristics.
'Right Click Popup Menu' option for all the lists for quick execution of desired action.
Enhanced user interface with couple of bug fixes including 'Jump to Registry' fix on Windows 7
Freeware
http://securityxploded.com/bhoremover.php