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Overview:
SAHagent is a browser hijacker that monitors all of the sites you visit and
inserts affiliate code wherever possible to make THEM money instead of the
referring website. As a webmaster that earns income off some affiliate programs
I believe this is a truly aweful hijacking. This is commonly bundled with some
kind of "free" software like Grokster and IMesh to make money for the developers
of that software. It will contact it's home servers and log information about
the sites you visit. There is also an automatic update which can potentially
install additional junk onto your system without your permission. There's really
no reason I've been able to think of for this to NOT be removed
immediately.
brought to you by:
http://www.shopathomeselect.com/
There might be a built in
uninstaller for this application under add/remove there could be a listing for "ShopAtHomeSelect
Agent"
Also Known As:
Golden Retriever Software
GRS
ShopAtHome
ShopAtHome.com
ShopAtHomeSelect
Destroy Autorun:
Delete the following keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\sahagent
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\sahbundle
Reboot
your system then:
Make sure
you click start --> Run and type in msconfig. Then select the startup tab. Any
references to the processes below should be deleted
End
Processes (may or may not exist):
bundle.exe
sahagent.exe
sahagent1019.exe
sahdownloader.exe
sahhtml.exe
sahuninstall.exe
sahuninstall_.exe
Unregister DLLs:
Tip: this is only a list of known files/locations. You will want to do a
search by the name of the file to see if they're on your system.
A while back I wrote a guide to
Register/remove DLL or AX
files which you will need if you don't know how to unregister these files.
Each file
is in several locations so you'll need to search for them and unregister +
delete them in every location you find.
atpartners.dll
lsp.dll
xmlparse_.dll
xmltok_.dll
Clean your Registry:
You should
be back to normal IF this was your only problem. I suggest you post in our HJT
forum since its not likely that this is your only bug.
Read this first