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Browser Helper Object: (BHO). A component that Internet Explorer will load whenever it starts, shares IE's memory context, can perform any action on the available windows and modules. A BHO can detect events, create windows to display additional information on a viewed page, monitor messages and actions. Microsoft calls it "a spy we send to infiltrate the browser's land." BHOs are not stopped by personal firewalls, because they are seen by the firewall as your browser itself. Some exploits of this technology search all pages you view in IE and replace banner advertisements with other ads. Some monitor and report on your actions. Some change your home page.
Adware: Software that displays popup/popunder ads when the primary user interface is not visible or which do not appear to be assocaited with the product.
Toolbar: A group of buttons which perform common tasks. A toolbar for Internet Explorer is nomally located below the menu bar at the top of the form. Toolbars may be created by Browser Helper Objects.
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The "Clot Factor" is a measure of how much a pest "gums up" a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone.
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During registration, iWon collects personal information including your name, address, email address, birth date, gender, zip code and phone number. Aornum passes opaque strings of characters to its servers. After providing iWon with this information, you are no longer anonymous... From time to time, iWon may collect additional personal and non-personal information about you. This may include:
- Credit card information to process your request for products, programs, or services.
- Information you provide when registering to receive goods or services from one or more of our partners.
- Information you provide when entering into a contest, sweepstakes or promotion sponsored by iWon and/or one of our partners.
- Information you provide when filling out a user survey.
- Information you provide if you contact our customer service center.
- Data related to the areas of iWon that you visit and how often you visit those areas. This includes co-branded sections of iWon that are part of our overall service.
- Publicly available information that we obtain from third parties.
- Information about your online activities, such as the websites you visit and your activities at such sites, if you have installed an iWon Software Product.
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Detection and Removal
Automatic Removal:
PestPatrol detects this.
PestPatrol removes this.
Manual Removal:
Go to the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs option and remove 'iWon Plus'. You will probably also want to remove the 'iWon EZ Setup' entry which is the installer (allowing iWon-signed code to be installed from a web page) and the 'iWon Search Assistant' which monitors terms entered into search engines and hijacks IE search settings.
(The 'iWon co-pilot' toolbar is not known to be harmful, you can choose to keep or remove it.)
Next, open the registry (Start->Run->regedit) and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete the 'Aornum' value. Now reboot and you should be able to delete the 'Ornum' folder in Program Files, and anything in the 'iWon' folder you didn't keep.
Kill these running processes with Task Manager:
Unregister these DLLs with Regsvr32, then reboot:
Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:
Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:
Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer: