What is msbb.exe? Is msbb.exe spyware or a virus?

What are you to do to fix msbb.exe related problems?
1. Run Security Task Manager to check your msbb.exe process
2. Run Registry Booster to fix msbb.exe related errors
3. Run Spyware Doctor to remove persistent malware

Process name: Search Assistant (MSBB Web3000 spyware)
Product: Web3000
Company: Web3000
File: msbb.exe
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Part of nCase (Web3000) advertising modul by 180Solutions.com that is included in some freeware (adware) and starts automatically when Windows starts. You can remove it in the Control Panel.

If you can not remove msbb.exe (because you can not locate it, or it is in use), download Security Task Manager. This program can kill the process, delete or quarantine this file, or just list all security related information about this file and all other running background processes.


Users Opinions

663 users ask for this file. 17 users didn't rate it ("don't know"). 9 users rated it as not dangerous. 1 user rated it as not so dangerous. 8 users rated it as neutral. 32 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 111 users rated it as dangerous.


All comments about msbb.exe:
Fastjack08 Web3000 spyware which is included with some adware products and is started from the registry when Windows is loaded
i deleted it, it makes trouble
Vladimir It's spyware! It is very noisily application!
Sparky It appears to be Spyware - it logs all internet accesses in files called fiz* in the windows dir
Matthias viel cpu last - Spyware
mumin symantec thinks it's a high risk, as do i
ryan dapel tilt your machine several times
Peter I'm pretty sure it's connected with a surge in ad pop-up frequency. I have 'noads' installed, but for some reason this uninvited parasite makes blocking those ads slow and burdensome. When I deleted the software, my whole internet connection speeded up.
Spywarerool
Krotti ...Spyware  See also: Link
AR MSBBI.EXE in C:\WINNT\.... will install it. It creates an \FEOK directory with some log and text files that contain references to pages on commerce sites I haven't visited. It looks to be placing orders or searching prices or something related.
Hell It eats a lot of ram. It should be classified as a worm.
Kevin This is REALLY a virus! this made my computer re-installed 5 times !!! you better Delete it once u first discover it!
denise kept freezing up my computer
I know that it can be related to sasser
sadf when i tried to uninstall 180solutions, the file 'msbb' was lanched n took about 40 MB memory so i had to end tht process, finally i just deleted tht folder instead of uninstalling it. phew!
Saxer for delete this run "C:\Program Files\180Solutions\FLEOK\msbb.exe /uninst_simple_init=y"
mark osude Spyware- uses a lot of resources - use adware to remove
guni goddam spyware!!!
werty When msbb is running on my computer, it's impossible to start Internet Explorer.
Itchi spyware  See also: Link
Roger From 180Solutions for 'comparison shopping', can replace winsock.dll
Yoko the result of deleting msbb from my computer is WinXP is not loading anymore!
p2 I have had repeated problems with different spyware. I keep deleting them and they others pop up. Your site is a great resource for figuring things out. I deleted msbb and several suspicious exe files today. Thanks!
unknown Bad Spyware - froze my computer on every start. Easy to get rid of find it in Control Panes add remove programs under 180search assistant  See also: Link
GAUAN Spyware very annoing and uses very much MUCH RAM!  See also: Link
craigchamberlin I found msbb.exe on my computer and attempted to uninstall it, no dice, so I installed a firewall so I could find out what keeps reinstalling all the spyware on my computer - this is what I came up with, apparantly this is just the front end of this spyware, it installed these services as well: syjnu.exe - cirg.exe - nlkupo.exe - ajdjb.exe - gbfxt.exe - gbfxt.exe - tqutuzw.exe - lxdnzruse.exe - msbb.exe, every single one of these pieces of software attempted to access to the internet automatically at the following address: bins2.media-motor.net (67.15.68.37)
chris under programs listed as 180 search assistant delete by all means necessary
i removed it and now my computer keep saying, on log on, that msbb.exe cannot be found and worse still i have lost my internet connection!
mjp i've deleted it it and the registry keys. It keeps coming back.
anon ;) it can mess with winsock. get a winsock repair tool!
Felipe - Floripa _brasil Sobre o arquivo eu nao sei nada, mas pode cre que é bucha!!! deixa o processador e a memória sobrecarregada
Russ Don't like it! Partial list of log file it creates in my winnt directory . . . . . Search Assistant Log File
John installed XP, Norton AV, Spybot, and Ad-aware-- in that order. MSBB.exe showed up during the ad-aware installation process. With such a clean system, I can only suspect that spybot or ad-aware put it there.
rs Remove in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] de key msbb
Thomas its no problem for you (spyware, not a virus) but its very annoying but you can deinstall it easily with the control panel
antonio frois it causes a lot of outbound traffic on the network and crashes internet access
Napsty Spyware! But we could name this also a worm! It eats lot of the RAM and it's impossible to load security updates nor new virus definitions (because it produces high traffic on your bandwith).
Bento Mir ist aufgefallen, dass msbb, sobald ich meine ADSL-Verbindung ins Internet aufgebaut habe, pro Stunde ca. 20 MB Daten aus meinem PC absaugt (Download ca. 2 MB, Upload ca. 20 MB). Das Ganze verschwindet sofort, wenn ich im Taskmanager (des WinXP) den Prozess msbb lösche.
ken kills IE and reinstals itself. Prosecute the company for cost of repairing computer damaged by this spyware parasite
E It wastes about 41MB of memory and won't go away even after deleting it repeatedly. Whoever designed program should be given the Roman scourge.
Frank It opens secretly every time at startup of my Windows ME. When I turn it off through Control-ALT-DEL, I can open AOL 9.0. When I try to ignore msbb.exe, I cannot open AOL 9.0.
pain in the butt. this spyware hijacks your bandwidth
el loco escoces tries to access internet - also seems to create a file (encrypted) called logbak.txt.... all very disturbing. My advice - delete it - mine ended in C:\temp...
Labojr seems to be a spyware; stopped by firewall, better be deleted....
Makes it's own log files. It blows
Lynch It keeps cmming no mahter what. You might delete it with a spyware remover and uninstall it...
kobra msbb.exe aint dangerous at all. but it's very annoying and msbb process uses a lot of memory, so if'll you find it: delete it!
Wouldn't allow me to access the internet unless I shut down msbb.exe file by doing ctrl-alt-del.
Lord Roger It nestles itself in IE and stays there. very anoing
it's keeps messin up my comp and is eatin alot of memory
Reeuenta Slowdown my PC & cost lots RAM
Gator Can't start IE. Difficult to eradicate/
Johnny It slows down your computer. When you turn on your computer the first thing you do is ctrl+alt+del, highlight msbb then hit end task
Hellkeeper some versions of msbb replace dll´s,as Roger said.But it can be removed easily by Programs like "Adaware"
spyware
Plasmoid Took up my ram.... a bit of my cpu and eventually stopped internet explorer from opening paged and any java based applications from starting
Papiya Dutta spyware
Anj Spyware
James it is totally annoying, and eats all your ram
T1000 remove it in the registry then in the program file if it exists and also in your temp files its a joke this msbb it also hides in the windows prefech folder along with coolwebsearch and web reabtes etc.... if u cant find it in the registry just go to edit and go to find type in msbb and click find it will find it if its in there after u delete it go back to edit and click find next till it tells you its finished searching the registry
João Cabrita Bailote I was unaware that I had msbb.exe on my system until Zone Alarm alerted me that it was trying to access the internet. I ran an anti spyware app and found 24 rogue applications that seemed to be associated with it; the spybot erradicated 22 of them and 2 were removed using "add or remove programs". Some of the other processes that appeared at the same time as msbb are: "web buddy", "bullseye" and "websync".
Kareem I know of this file and system process from downloading a program called dvd xcopy from a direct dl site. And that's how i received it. So i suggest everyone should be careful what you download. What you think is free, is not free
Empathy Eats Ram, Nearly impossible to remove, installed without notice of the user somethimes. Under the new act passed by congress this company should be shut down and sued for damages :)
Tim It makes a keylog file, and it has a file with the weirdest and most illegal used internet words (18+)... With all adds. Dangerous.
sccrmom couldn't run internet explorer when it ran, when I deleted it, it crashed the computer--should be classified as a virus!!
Dave Freezes computer up, keeps coming back, seems to have stopped automatic antivirus updates from being downloaded.
fluffwitt keeps coming back....must be through certain web sites visited...use hijackthis to delete it
Sardukkar It ate my memory like there was no tomorrow and I couldn't open explorer with it
ping lässt sich im taskmanager löschen dann im verzeichnis löschen danach ist ruhe
Jeff it eats about 40% of my memory... also causes my pc to reboot continuiously.
gronan made my computer chatter and hang. Search in explorer and delete asap
Richard caused numerous hangs and crashes, treat it as a virus
Tux LOLLLLL , doesn't have any problem, work with Linux
flex i deleted it but i comes back !!!
Delete! I have msbb.exe to!
Mad Computer Owner steals bandwidth and crashes "add or Remove Programs" everytime I tried to unistall and the msbb.exe file cannot be deleted from the folder it is in. info from another site about this: "Msbb.exe, delmsbb.exe, and dnxf.exe were created by "180Solutions" as a 'comparison shopping' program called nCase (also known as Web3000). This is advertising spyware that creates popup ads. It ma also overwrite your wsock32.dll system file, and may transmit lists of URLs you visit. In some cases, you'll see delmsbb.exe listed as an nCase uninstaller. In reality, it doesn't remove nCase files at all."  See also: Link
Roland After boot up XP is much slower. The hard disk goes berserk and starts swapping. Very slow system. I have 256 MB of RAM.
-+aNUbiS+- If somehow you cannot delete "msbb.exe" what I did was I removed it from my processes and then ran Norton SystemWorkd on it, chose the Wipe Info option and done so. Thats a very good program. I hope I helped!
kill_spy_and_adware_makers will steal your all URLs and keystrocks
Le Strange, this 180solutions was installed automatically in my computer. Then my computer had problem. I finally found out the problem and uninstalled the sofeware. But when I logged into Internet again, I found this f***ing msbb file was in my computer again so that it didn't function proper. Spyware!
It consumes a lot of RAM - Among the higest in memory usage
luckyranger@yahoo.com just locate the file and delete it, before doing that disable it from your startup using "msconfig" then uninstall all the extra tool bars on ur browser
Joy This is distributed with the installer of NiceMC input plugin for WinAmp! There is no chance I might have any interest to use WinAmp on my system!
Joy Adware & Spyware (may be a worm). Pretty easy to get rid of if you can discover it at the very early stage.
Stevareeno was told if you remove it you really will have problems
Jimmy This is part of the adware bound to DivX, Strangles bandwidth
Rhyssa It used up almost half of the memory in my computer, leaving it running so slowly as to be almost unuseable. Start in safe mode and delete all msbb files.
jKosh Antivir(c) found it on my c:\windows\system32 but, there was nothing on registry nor running processes... I just deleted it, after reading your opinions
TF It's spyware, eats up a ton of memory and should be removed ASAP.
DigitalZone Run MSCONFIG, go to startup and turn it off this seems to do the trick
affects explorer in a really annoying way...... never seen my pc working so slow
concerned I was lucky to discover it very early, my AV couldnt even quarantine it immediately. It replicates into svcnet.exe also, that file is usually located in C:\windows\system32\...if you see it get RID OF IT!
SQ It arrived on my computer a couple of days ago and I finally found it, I started in safe mode and was able to delete it that way. Very annoying and hope it stays away.
Seann This is Adware by nCase/180Solutions. See the link provided.  See also: Link
dalecosp This, in combination with more of its ilk, will fubar your system bigtime.
hat@tesco.net I removed it from startup & changed the exe file to txt so I could bring it back if necessary
jodler constantly made my computer crash and internet worked shitty, now i have deleted it and i can`T open attachments in word anymore
Alexis Ramon Ths file can be installed if u have wind updates, so if u see this program in ur comp delete it! it have caused me lots of trouble  See also: Link
Emp really has hijcked my PC, most of problems come when i use Hotmail. Does hotmail have something to do with it?
remoniz It is a show stopper that keeps me employeed.
Laszlo PC hängt sehr oft (alle 3min für etwa 30sek)! Mit AntiViren Systemen konnte ich nichts machen, aber mit RegCleaner, Adware & Security Task Manager ließ er sich vollständig entfernen!
Judy It links other computers to yours so other people have access to your computer.
Rach kept freezing my computer every 10 seconds ! really annoying made everything go slow!
abdel you get it if you download like picturestealer of emotionstealer add for msn moslty if you download unknown programs RUN regedit en search everting that has the word solutions and delete it use Adaware SE
kennigr when I first got my computer and went on line it was so cool but unknown to me adware/spyware was being put in mu computer after only three days my computer was so slow it was almost useless i got spybot and it got rid of the evil little attackers spy ware makin should be a crime on par with grand theft since people spend so much money and time on computers
Malte Virus; Wurde vom Virenscanner als gefährlicher Trojaner eingestuft und gelöscht.
yietagbm
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Ivan This annoying file has been giving me a headache for quite a long time and I've given it too much time and many tries.Everytime I delete it, it comes back, though I have a firewall!How? SPYBOT search & destroy, ADware SE, and SPYWARE doctor were all useless, it comes back again. Use "highjack this" to kill the proccess, it works, but comes back on restart.The freak who made this program knew exactly what he was doing.Check the link for useful downloads  See also: Link
Pirate ***** EASY FIX: Look, if you guys really don't like it that much, go to www.google.com.au and search for spybot. Download version 1.4. Once you've done this, go to www.download.com or www.freedownloads.be and download HijackThis. HijackThis kills startup entries that other programs can't even see (be careful though). Don't bother with Adwaware or any other program, these two will fix pretty much everything.
James I dont know anything about this o_0 Other than it may be screwing me up the ass. My fully updated Norton Antivirus cant delete or quarantine this file, and i think it may be using my Bit Tornado to let others connect to me. My CPU goes to 100% whenever i use BT for like 10 minutes or something o_0 And wont go down unless i close the program.
Brant Horrible--does not allow me to start ANY programs--gives error message: __________.exe generated errors and must be closed by Windows. ---Because of this, nothing works! Trying to find a way to remove it, Norton Anti-virus DOES NOT do it!
It has locked my computer to where I cant get my web browser to come up anymore at first it locked it up everytime then I woud have to completely shut down my system
errrrr.....i deleted 180 and now i cant open IE (im using mozilla) and i cant open my documents or my computer...
Kris ppl, stop talking about regcleaner, since that Software is using Spyware itself!
pastorprakash under programs listed as 180 search assistant delete by all means necessary  See also: Link
mark osude Use Housecall on line to remove, or spybot and adaware
Chris It uses ca.11MB of RAM. Very complicated uninstall process (uninstall in two steps, the program installs itself as two different programs), to uninstall required connection to Internet and downloading two times additional uninstall programs! It is possible two uninstall it from the control panel, add/remove programs: you have to uninstall two separate programs: 1."Interstitial Ad Delivery by n-Case" and 2."... PAD ... by n-Case". See also: http://www.n-case.com/ncaseaduninstall.html  See also: Link
Olga Spyware
deleted it with windows beta defender 2 you can download it www.windows.com homepage

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