Xupiter

Overview

Xupiter comes in many variants, known as Xupiter, BrowserWise, Sqwire and OrbitExplorer.

Wired news has two interesting articles about Xupiter: "Xupiter Mongers Deal Spam, Scams" and "Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers"

Classification

Adware

Files

XupiterStartup.exe, BWCfgLoader.exe, XTCfgLoader.exe, XupiterToolbarLoader.exe, xupiterstartup2003.exe, RunDownload.exe, XupiterToolbar.exe, XupiterToolbar.dll, XTUpdate.dll, XTSearch.dll, BrowserToolbar.dll, BWUpdate.dll, BWSearch.dll, t.dll, u.dll, s.dll, toolbar.dll, redirector.dll, search.dll

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Vendor

Xupiter Interactive

Privacy policy

Xupiter privacy policy

Detection

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner detects Xupiter. Bazooka is freeware and detects spyware, adware, foistware, trojan horses, viruses, worms and other potentially unwanted applications. Read more »

Uninstall procedure

Uninstall Xupiter from "Add/Remove Programs" in the Windows® Control Panel. Some of the variants does not have an uninstall entry so you have to uninstall it manually. You can also contact the Xupiter vendor at help@xupiter.com for support.

Uninstall Xupiter with FreeFixer

I'm working on a general purpose tool for removing unwanted software. The tool is called FreeFixer and can help you remove unwanted Browser Helper Objects, Internet Explorer toolbars and software that starts automatically when you reboot your computer, so it can offer some assistance while uninstalling Xupiter. The manual removal instructions listed below will help you to identify what to delete with FreeFixer.

Read more about FreeFixer.

Manual removal

Please follow the instructions below if you would like to remove Xupiter manually. Please notice that you must follow the instructions very carefully and delete everything that is mentioned. In most cases the removal will fail if one single item is not deleted. If Xupiter remains on your system after stepping through the removal instructions, please double-check by stepping through them again.

1. Start the registry editor. This is done by clicking Start then Run. (The Run dialog will appear.) Type regedit and click OK. (The registry editor will open.)
2. Browse to the key:
   'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run'
3. In the right pane, delete the values called 'XupiterStartup', 'XupiterCfgLoader', 'SQUpdatesChecker', 'SQConfigChecker', 'OrbitUpdate','Xupiter Startup', 'xupiterstartup2003', 'XupiterToolbarLoader' and 'OrbitView', if they exists.
4. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ CLSID \ {2662BDD7-05D6-408F-B241-FF98FACE6054}, if it exists.
5. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ CLSID \ {57E69D5A-6539-4d7d-9637-775DE8A385B4}, if it exists.
6. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ CLSID \ {702AD576-FDDB-4d0f-9811-A43252064684}, if it exists.
7. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ CLSID \ {D48F2E28-68E2-4920-9848-D6E6C7AB3EB7}, if it exists.
8. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Browser Helper Objects \ {2662BDD7-05D6-408F-B241-FF98FACE6054} if it exists.
9. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Browser Helper Objects \ {702AD576-FDDB-4d0f-9811-A43252064684} if it exists.
10. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Browser Helper Objects \ {D48F2E28-68E2-4920-9848-D6E6C7AB3EB7} if it exists.
11. Browse to the key:
    'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Toolbar'
12. In the right pane, delete the value called {57E69D5A-6539-4d7d-9637-775DE8A385B4}, if it exists.
13. In the right pane, delete the value called {702AD576-FDDB-4d0f-9811-A43252064684}, if it exists.
14. Browse to the key:
    'HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Toolbar \ WebBrowser'
15. In the right pane, delete the value called {702AD576-FDDB-4d0f-9811-A43252064684}, if it exists.
16. In the right pane, delete the value called {57E69D5A-6539-4d7d-9637-775DE8A385B4}, if it exists.
17. Exit the registry editor.
18. Restart your computer.

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