 Description
E2Give is an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object that
redirects accesses to web merchants in order to claim their
affiliate fees.
Variants
E2Give/E2GBHO is an early version distributed form
December 2002. Its main file is e2gbho.dll, stored in an 'E2Give'
folder in Program Files.
E2Give/IeBHOs is a newer variant, main file iechos.dll,
stored in a folder called 'E2G' in the root of the C: drive.
Distribution
Installed by ActiveX drive-by download, believed to be used
in pop-up advertisements.
What it does
Advertising
No.
Privacy violation
Not known.
Security issues
Not known.
Stability problems
No, though it can make opening new Windows Explorer windows
very slow.
Removal
The E2GBHO variant has an entry in the Control Panel's Add/Remove
Programs feature — choose ‘E2Give Browser Add On’
Manual removal
Open a DOS command prompt window (from Start->Programs->Accessories),
and enter the following commands, for the E2GBHO variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\E2Give\e2gbho.dll"
Or, for the IeBHOs variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "C:\E2G\iebhos.dll"
Restart the computer and you should be able to delete the
folder 'E2Give' in Program Files (E2Give variant), or 'E2G'
in the C: drive (IeBHOs variant).
You can also open the registry (Start->Run->regedit)
and delete the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\E2Give to clean
up, if you like.
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