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Name: |
BDE |
| Type: |
Adware |
| Also Known As: |
Brilliant Digital
BrilliantDigital
B3D Projector |
| Created By: |
Brilliant Digital |
| Danger Level: |
4 |
| Category Description: |
Program that delivers advertisements on your PC.
Note that many websites have their own advertising, unrelated to adware.
Adware is any software application in which advertising is displayed while the program is running. The authors of these applications include additional code that delivers the ads, which can be viewed through pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on a computer screen and sometimes through text links or in integrated search results. Adware may or may not track personal information. It may also gather information anonymously or in aggregate only. Users should check the EULA and Privacy policy to ensure if the adware on their machines conforms to their standards. |
| Official Description: |
A player for 'rich media' advertising.
It allows sites to use 'rich' (ie. annoying) advertising with 3D effects, sound, and so on. However, it does not add its own advertising to other sites.
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| Comment: |
Apart from being downloadable from Brilliant's own legitimate-looking site, it is also stealth-installed by newer versions of KaZaA and other free applications. |
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| Information URL: |
http://www.brilliantdigital.com/ |
| Properties: |
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| Manual Removal: |
You can use 'Add/Remove Programs' for 'B3d Projector'. It does leaves a lot of files behind, though, and an unholy mess in the registry. It is perhaps possible that a site could re-install BDE using some of the leftover stubs.
You will want to delete the directory 'BDE' inside your Windows directory, and the files 'bdeinstall.exe', 'bdeinsta2.dll', 'bdefdi.dll', 'bdedata2.dll', 'bdedownloader.dll', 'bdeverify.dll', 'bdesecureinstall.exe' and 'bdesecureinstall.cab' inside your System directory (which is 'WINDOWS\SYSTEM' under Windows 95/98/Me, and 'WINNT\System32' under Windows NT/2000/XP).
Next, run regedit and remove the 'b3dUpdate' value from key 'Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\' in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. You can also remove 'Software\ZUpdate', and in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT the keys: 'b3d', 'b3ds', 's3d_auto_file', 'b3dini_auto_file', 'BDEPLAYER.BDEPlayerCtrl[.1]', 'BDESmartInstaller.BDESmartInstallerCtrl[.1]', '.b3dini'.
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