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. ============================================================================== 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 PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml