At 4/30/2003 09:33 PM, Tressie Mittenburg wrote:

I get an illegal operation when I try to use any search
engine like google,yahoo, and alta vista. Could anyone
help me? TIA!

Details:
IEXPLORE caused an exception eedfadeH in module BTLINK.DLL
at 016f:022cb3e5.
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HuntBar is an IE search-hijacker from Traffic Syndicate
that puts the BTLINK.DLL on your machine. It did so when
you visited some website that wanted to track your
Internet usage and sites you visit. It installs through
Active-X as you visit certain sites or get pop-up
advertising that is distributed by Traffic Syndicate.

Some details:

HuntBar sends the domain name of the site being viewed,
the domain name of any site previously being viewed and
the title and any keywords in the current page to its
controlling servers whenever a new site is viewed. It does
this even if the Search toolbar is not turned on.

HuntBar/Side, MSLink, BTLink and SToolbar send URLs and
search terms used to its controlling servers with a unique
ID allowing your search engine usage to be tracked.

Security issues:  HuntBar/TS, MSIn and BTIn can silently
download and execute arbitrary code, as an update feature.

Stability problems:  HuntBar/BTLink and SToolbar seems to
cause IE to crash often on some setups with an 'Exception
E Access Violation'.

Removal

TrafficSyndicate offer two uninstaller files for
HuntBar/TS, which have been reported not to work properly.

I would recommend going to:

http://security.kolla.de/

and get Spybot Search and Destroy to get rid of this
parasite program.  It is free and will identify other
parasite programs that you may have picked also.

Doug

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