Free bho software for windows

HOCaptor is a freeware program that will let you control the IE Browser Helper Objects that are installed on your computer. It makes it easy to see what BHOs are installed and to de-activate them.
Applications which install BHOs are becoming more and more popular because BHOs allow application developers to control Internet Explorer. For example Alexa uses a BHO to to monitor page navigation and show related page links. GetRight and Go!Zilla use BHOs to monitor and control file downloading. Flyswat, Quiver, Blink, iHarvest, etc use BHOs to extend and control Internet Explorer. BHO technology has allowed the development of some very powerful (and cool) applications.
BHOs dont require a user interface per se (though many also install Internet Explorer toolbars). Therefore, its possible that there are BHOs installed on your system that you dont know about. BHOCaptor makes it easy to see what BHOs are installed and allows you to deactivate those that misbehave.

Think of BHODemon as a guardian for your Internet browser: it protects you from unknown Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), by letting you enable/disable them individually. BHODemon is free, runs in the tray area, and works on Windows 95 or later operating systems.
What is a Browser Helper Object?
A Browser Helper Object (BHO) is just a small application that will run automatically each time you start your Internet browser. Usually, a BHO is installed on your system by another software program.
For example, Go!Zilla, the downloading utility, installs a BHO created by Radiate (formerly Aureate Media); this BHO tracks which advertisements you see as you surf the Web.
The natural question is, what do BHOs do? The technical answer is anything, but generally, it will have something to do with helping you browse the Internet. Of course, some BHOs are what is called ad-ware or spyware: they do things like monitor the websites you visit and report this data back to their creators.
Although many people are extremely concerned about them because of the privacy issue, BHOs are not necessarily bad things, and most of them are well-intentioned and beneficial.
For example, the P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) program spearheaded by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and major vendors, including Microsoft, AT&T, and IBM, will be delivered as a BHO.
Some BHOs, however, are placed secretly on your system, and there is certainly no technical reason why they could not be programmed to send information about your system (or your web surfing habits) over the Internet without your knowledge.
Also, there is no restriction on what a BHO can do your system; it can do anything any other program can do: read or write (or delete) anything on your system.
Usually, software is installed on your system explicitly by you; when you do so, you are, in effect, saying that you trust the vendor. BHOs, however, have a history of being installed without the users knowledge (fine print notwithstanding)
Given that (a) BHOs can do absolutely anything to your system, and (b) they are often installed without your knowledge, there is a distinct potential for abuse by vendors.
The problem is, until now you had no way of knowing which BHOs are on your machine, who put them there, and what they do. This is what BHODemon does - it lets you easily manage your BHOs, and tells you what each BHO on your system is doing.
What does BHODemon do?
BHODemon scans your Registry for BHOs, and presents any it finds in a list. By highlighting a BHO in this list, and clicking the "Details" button, you can see information about this BHO, and even disable it if you wish.
BHOs are disabled by simply renaming the DLL that houses them.
By renaming the DLL, instead of deleting it, you have the option of enabling it later if you wish. Why would you want to do that?
Because the program that installed the BHO will not run if it cant find the DLL: Go!Zilla, for example, wont run if you remove its BHOs.

HJTHotkey 3.054 is a program to boost the speed of finding items in a HijackThis log when it has been posted onto a forum or from a log file. It is free. It will run in the system tray and when a hotkey/shortcut key is pressed, it will copy the word that has been selected and automatically search for that word on Web sites such as Google, sysinfo.org (startup items, Toolbars, BHO's), answersthatwork.com (processes) or one of the offline BHO, CWS, Toolbar, Startup, and Service databases depending on the hotkey that is pressed. There are features designed to aid the research of HijackThis logs built-in.

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Free Spyware and Adware Detection & Removal Software Spy Soap detects a multitude of spyware, adware, Trojan horses, keyloggers, and trackware components, sources of irritation that many antivirus products do not deal with. Scans for almost all Spyware components out there today! Easy to use (just one click of a mouse) Cool UI and multi-ways to upgrade Scans Running processes (Memory), Registry, Fixed, and removable drives. Quarantine and restore removed items. Ignore List (Found items can be ignored) Also features BHO Manager Also features Startup Manager Also features HostsFile Manager Also features Immunize hazardous ActiveX

HackCleaner will help you clear your personal computer of unused files and harmful plugins such as BHO, Adware. HackCleaner will help you clear your personal computer of unused files and harmful plugins such as BHO, Adware.
Main features:
Cleans memory for accelerating performance.
- Thats small different from other similar software, A special improvement is that you can clean stack for each process so as to economize more physical memory.
Force process
- Due to Windowss security mechanism, any special file has been using in other process, you cant move or delete it, as you thinking, the file should be real garbage or harmful advertising or trojain hourse?! well, simply choice force process... in settings wizard page, then start to force clear it!
HackUnlocker
- Extremely powerful function! its similar and extended with No.2 above,
- However, force operating file in windows explorer is very convenient.
System performance
- Extra small tool that help you to trace system performance such as
- CPU, Memory, Processes, etc.
Background cleaning
- LET HackCleaner helps you to automatically cleaning anything - temporary files, registration items, memory reforming.