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Spyware BuddyLinks Information
Name: BuddyLinks Category: Adware Date: 2004-02-16 Dangerous: Yes

BuddyLinks belongs to Adware spyware category.
It's presense means that your computer is infected with malicious software and is insecure.

BuddyLinks description by publisher:

´BuddyLinks provides a revolutionary new way for instant messenger users to instantaneously share entertaining content with their entire IM "buddy list" network all at one time. The permission-based software, including interactive games, made to be downloaded directly via IM through a URL link. Once the software is downloaded, users can easily & quickly communicate jokes, games & amusing images within their entire IM social network. BuddyLinks marks the 1st entertainment program that made to be shared over instant messaging systems. Before BuddyLinks, users would need to send messages individually with no option for sending to the entire group list, & messages would need to be cut & pasted -- a time-consuming & laborious process. This 1st-of-its-kind, patent-pending, social networking software is the recent development in peer-to-peer communication & is compatible with various IM systems. BuddyLinks utilizes technology from instant messaging, newsgroups & social network technologies. BuddyLinks is revolutionizing instant messaging, providing the 1st social networking component that automatically integrates with IM & offers added enhancement to the existing IM functionality. The software has an industry-standard opt-in & opt-out option & only forwards content to its users with their permission. BuddyLinks also has a strict policy for main´taining its users´ privacy.´ -- www.buddylinks.net/service.php

This Adware is also known as:

•Adware.Buddylinks - named by Symantec.
• Adware/PurityScan - named by Panda.

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BuddyLinks Removal Instructions
Kill the following processes mtwi.exe, blpref.exe, blengine.exe, channelup.exe
Unregister the following DLLs and reboot blaim.dll, bldll.dll, blengine.dll in Program Files\common files\psd tools\
Delete these registry entries HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\blmessagingintegration HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\psd tools channel
Remove the following files mtwi.exe. blpref.exe in Program Files\buddylinks.net\ blaim.dll, bldll.dll, blengine.dll, blengine.exe, channelup.exe in Program Files\common files\psd tools\
Remove the following directories Program Files\buddylinks.net Program Files\common files\psd tools

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