Free bhos software for windows

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.

Toolbarcop is a small software application that can be used to eliminate malware toolbands, browser helper objects and toolbar icons in Internet Explorer.
A BHO is a COM in-process server registered under a certain registry key. Upon startup, Internet Explorer looks up that key and loads all the objects whose CLSID is stored there.
Most of the Internet Explorer crashes are due to malware browser helper objects. Though you can disable "Third-party Extensions" in the Advanced Tab of Internet Explorer, this is just a *workaround*.
If you have three BHOs, one of which is the needed one and the other two are spyware BHOs. What if you want your favorite BHO running and disable the other two BHOs?
You can disable/delete a particular BHO using ToolbarCops "BROWSER HELPER OBJECT" section.
Select a BHO and see the "Description" and "Related File". The "Related File" is the in-process server [DLL].
Select the unwanted item from the list and Disable it. If Windows functions normally without that BHO, you can safely delete that BHO later.
Can disable or eliminate the following browser add-ons selectively from Internet Explorer:
- Unwanted Browser Helper Objects (BHO)
- Toolbars (Tool Band)
- Standard Toolbar buttons
- Context menu Extensions
- Third-party download managers &
- Third-party Protocol Handlers and their residual entries remaining in the registry.
- Horizontal / Vertical Explorer Bars (side-search bars)
NOTE: This utility can be used as a Quick-Solution to remove Toolbar, Toolbar icons, and BHOs. But, this cannot be substituted with a spyware remover utility. Still, I strongly recommend you use a spyware remover like Ad-Aware.

AntiHook Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server 2.6 build 14 offers users a professional real-time Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) system that ensures the integrity of the operating system by blocking and reporting any suspicious activity, including the following: launching of malicious applications and processes, termination of critical security applications (e.g. Firewall, Anti-Virus), loading of suspicious DLLs (e.g. BHOs, ActiveX), malware modifying the memory space of an external application and executing malicious code, kernel rootkits that maliciously alter the Windows operating system, registration of programs for loading on PC start-up or when the user logs on to the system, malicious system-wide Windows hooks. Designed for home users only.

Major Features:

1. Dynamically protects users from malicious software such as unseen viruses, Spyware, Rootkits, Keyloggers, Code Injection, and Trojans.
2. Detects and prevents attacks in real-time. AntiHook can operate as a standalone module, relying on its local database only and not requiring an update of data definitions.

An incredibly fast malware scanner that features fast, reliable database updates and safe, easy removal. Malware Scan is an incredibly fast malware scanner that features fast, reliable database updates and safe, easy removal.
But Malware Scan does not only scan for malware. It also checks for spyware, hijackers, trojans, toolbars, BHOs and more. Malware Scan is also easy to use.
It has an extremely clean interface, with only the most common items displayed, so you can easily perform a scan or update the program without spending much time at all. It is also 100% FREE, and dosent require you to pay before removal.
Five very useful tools may also be found in this application: a process killer, an uninstall manager, a cookie manager, a windows tasks manager and a browser cache cleaner.