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re: ShopAtHome Agent Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 6:16 pm Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) ShopAtHomeSelect by hand: if you slip up you may lose all networking ability. First, open the registry (Start->Open->regedit) and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run . Delete the 'SAHAgent' entry. Next, deregister the LSP part of ShopAtHomeSelect. The easiest way to do this is to use a tool such as LSPFix. Tell it to 'Remove' lsp.dll and 'Keep' the rest. (It is possible to remove LSPs by hand by editing the registry, but it's quite a bit of effort and it's easy to make a mistake. If you want to try anyway, run 'regedit' and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9 . For each key in Catalog_Entries, open the 'PackedCatalogItem' value and check if it starts with 'lsp.dll'. If it does delete that entry. Renumber the remaining keys so that they count up from 000000000001 one at a time, and set the 'Num_Catalog_Entries' value in Protocol_Catalog9 to the highest key number you have. See, I told you it was a lot of effort.) Next, open a DOS command prompt window (from Start->Programs->Accessories) and enter the commands: cd "%WinDir%\System" regsvr32 /u "..\Downloaded Program Files\WEBinstaller.dll" cd "..\Downloaded Program Files" del WEBinstaller.dll del SAH*.exe Restart the computer and you should be able to delete the files 'tracking.tmp', 'vg.dat', 'v.dat', 'lsp.dll', 'SahDownloader.exe' and 'SahAgent.exe' from the System folder (inside the Windows folder; called 'System' on Windows 95/98/Me or 'System32' under Windows NT/2000/XP). You can also delete the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VGroup to clean up if you like. triplate... On Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 5:42 pm, Rick wrote: >After my son installed Grokster on my computer, and I deleted it, I found ShopAtHome >Agent in my Add/Remove Programs file. When I remove the program it deletes some >file that is necessary to run Outlook and Explorer. None of the spyware remover >programs will touch this sahagent.exe file, either. >Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this file without messing up the rest of my >system? > >Rick [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ShopAtHome Agent Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 6:32 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) This isn't the only loveable free app. Have a serious talk with your son about chacking with you before downloading/installing 'wonderful deals'. You got off easy this time. The option is reinstall...everything. NOT FUN!! On Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 5:42 pm, Rick wrote: >After my son installed Grokster on my computer, and I deleted it, I found ShopAtHome >Agent in my Add/Remove Programs file. When I remove the program it deletes some >file that is necessary to run Outlook and Explorer. None of the spyware remover >programs will touch this sahagent.exe file, either. >Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this file without messing up the rest of my >system? > >Rick [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ShopAtHome Agent Thursday, August 7, 2003 at 1:48 pm Posted by vk (1 messages posted) Do a search for "sah" and manually delete all the files you find that seem related to shop at home. On Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 5:42 pm, Rick wrote: >After my son installed Grokster on my computer, and I deleted it, I found ShopAtHome >Agent in my Add/Remove Programs file. When I remove the program it deletes some >file that is necessary to run Outlook and Explorer. None of the spyware remover >programs will touch this sahagent.exe file, either. >Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this file without messing up the rest of my >system? > >Rick [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum