| All comments about sp.exe: |
 | Can annoy IE6 as it install itself with the toolbar, and IE won't function properly with certain sites. (Screen turns into gray) G.H. |
 | it blocks Panda Virus Scan, Panda's online scan is below See also: Link Peter Tavinor |
 | I believe it to be a form of spyware. more of a pain in the arse for hotmail users if anything. remove in safe mode, by searching win dir and registry. Simon Halcrow |
| problems with hotmail KKWW |
 | seems to be linked with browser hijacking malware. |
| See also: Link Joe |
| spyware , cant surf with him when he run on the local computer make 100% cpu too See also: Link Ben alamio |
| See also: Link |
| I found in my root (C:\ that is) on W2k. G.H. is right, screen does turn gray on mail.com and operamail.com. I killed the process and deleted the sp.exe and no problemo since. el_bibiq |
| It make IE pages white and seems too be memory resistent. It can be removed with HijackThis but the next day it´s back again. Placed in root of C: drive. Zyklone |
| It refreshes your IE browser and shows a blank page and gives a lot of Page Not Found error on random sites Francis Kwang |
| the file may get lost some programs when their are runnig, because the windows that it open interrup the conection of those programs Alejandro |
| it take control over you ( I think its illigal spware that do anything without your awareness, and I think it have something to do with Netsearch dave |
| It can't be deleted, it was created when I was surfing on the Internet, it is annoying and I hate it! Xammer |
| I've just discovered it, it is located on the path C:\sp.exe, on my comp, and is every second refering to Hard Disk. Reading files "~CLBCATQ.DLL" located in system32 folder and also the file shdocvw.dll. Also hi has opened handle for ksecdd.sys service. this is a security service and why it needs it, if the sp is neutral, than?. timer, security, and resident == NOT neutral George kakabadze |
| nothing but the system is sure slow and a pop up shows after i enter my videos folder an error msg snake |
| definately virus like. it makes IE closed automatically Yang |
| Makes your IE6 unable to show frames in HTML. KM |
| It file very dangerous. Grania |
| spyware that causes damage to IE Sladjan |
| spybot says it's a spyware Y |
| link to ntsearch.com site. Very annoying and problem in accessing emails pluto |
| It completely messes up my Internet Explorer, and Powerpoint and Outlook also seem to be affected Theresa Willerup |
| Disturbing Internet explorer Sphinx |
| this file causes a problem to your browser every time you try to open a page the browser turns the charecters in your page into question marks and doesnt allow you to surf safely. what you need to do is to go and check in your registry and search for the file and delete it evey think will be back to normal then jehad batal |
| attacks secure site certificates, remove it from startup and delete the file immediately greg bennett |
| Turn some website into white or gray with IE6 and "invent" hyperlinks with some words like money, web, news etc... Annoyed |
| this file block hotmail pages. can not access to check mails and block internet explorer closing all. ever_net |
| Spyware or trojan - It usually installs to C:\sp.exe, doesnt bring up any icon which is sneaky. Also will not let you delete it as it is running as a service. Hit cntrl alt delete and stop the service / end now and then you can delete it. I think spybot can block it but did not remove the .exe, I had to do this manually. It has gotten so bad on the net lately, I find myself running spybot and ad aware every few days. The most innocent sites can have this crap. Geoff_s |
| Virus: blank page with frame IE6. Avast didn't see anything. you must stop process sp.exe and kill in boot and in register. hobiecat |
| it gives continuous popup "IE ERROR" pravin |
| when it 'infects' your computer, you get a 'operation aborted' error and some sites cannot be accessed Marius van Wyk |
| I had it on my puter an couldnt get rid..puter slowed down an acted very weird I believe its a virus..stop it by "end task" in "running processes" then find location in your puter an delete it!! spen |
| it blocking site that have a security pp |
| Work like a virus when is active, block the acess to the e-mail settings, and sometimes close all IE operations. To finish your activity, you have to close it in Task Manager, but remove it from system I don´t know (try deleting from registry). Overkill_Brasil |
| it comes in with imesh (when started) then tries to take over computer when running some programs |
| It makes my disk where AVG is installed unreachable!! Thomas |
| We had it on two of our machines. As has been said it resides as c:\sp.exe. Use task manager to stop the process, then delete it. Do a search for NTSearch and unistall that. You will have to do a download to uninstall NTSearch, don't worry it does not put something else on your machine in its place. Good luck all. Jon Buxton |
| i had it on my computer and does not allow my ie to open frames, also redirect search to ntsearch.com maanu |
| makes links from words like money, cash, net, web, etc and makes it absolutely impossible to use hotmail. Luthien |
| block hotmail pages and changes the way you see other pages, is located at C:\, just remove it from startup and delete it wakko |
| Its spyware Carlos |
| delete its reference in registry and in windows\prefetch, then reboot and erase sp.exe under system root directory (usually C:) Gilla |
| searching for more info about this fella. Hijacks web page and does not allow java to run. About 5 PC hit in the organisation i work for. Manually stop service, remove from registry startup, and then delete file. JonP |
| View source did not work for me from ie, and 2 ie process was running all the time and was not able to kill the ie process too. Its very annoying santosh. |
| Annoying little bugger... As temporary solution just end the process in Task Manager. It stops the problems with some sites temporarily! Mr J |
| Blocks internet Connection MaD |
| won´t let you open some websites. Check symantec website to remove this file. See also: Link F Trevino |
| Drives me crazy iCQ |
| What a pain, screw my wifes system daily. Search Registry for sp.exe and delete. Also search and destry gp.exe, gp2.exe, pout.exe and pin.exe this is a rehash of an old bastard virus. To search registry just type regedit in the the run box when it pops press ctrl and f to search and f3 key to find the next incident. Compression |
| it totally block the entire internet session, some downloads and public and personal pages as mails it doesnt let them open, been trying to delete but it has been imposible. HELPĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦĦ ERNIE |
| CLOSING THE SP.EXE PROCESS let you view the java sites. Giulio Cesare |
| SP.exe as the main file. Blocks/changes/currupts internet pages. Hard to uninstall - Ad-aware can remove it as a temp measure, but it does come back. May cause pop-ups but this could be unrelated. Linked to NTsearch by finding key words and puts it into the search engine. More annoying then dangerous. Robinb |
| I found the process as sp.exe in the root drive of drive C: I deleted it from the drive, and from the registry. problem was resolved. :-) markgusto |
| As it´s been said earlier, it turns the screen grey or white in certain sites. It is easy to clean with the programme "hijackthis". just look for the reg entry that ends with sp.exe and delete it See also: Link Micke Sundqvist |
| Stupid Adware, the government should sue ntsearch.com! Joe |
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| Destroy's your computer's abilty to think or use hotmail Christof |
| has the following files in it, Dc2.exe and A0016151.exe. Trendmicro says it is TROJ_Spooner.b See also: Link Katherine |
| It closes several running applications, like RegEdit, Ad-Aware and Office applications. Surfing the Internet brings up several pop-up windows, such as mobile ring-tones, on-line gambling, making-money sites. Sometime you cannot surf certain sites, like italian portal Tiscali. Deleting this file (in c:\) isn't enough, must search in registry or services. IT novices could be in serious difficulty. skagway |
| not detected by avg, try to delete the executable c:\sp.exe, if you cant delete it from windows, go to the command prompt and delete it there. the file has not caused any damage to my computer, only some worries on how it got onto my drive. chrissie chris |
| this file too much painc , block , like adware. Sadiq Solkar |
| I get problems with some sites on internet. Yngve |
| This is very annoying, My spy-ware and anti virus couldn't find it. In the end I stopped it running by going to Ctrl, Alt & Delete, then doing a search for all .exe on my hard drive and it came up on my route, I deleted it from there. Hopefully it will stay gone. Annoyed |
| its not that dangerous, just annoying, and any page with minor script errors completely dies. open regedit.exe and search for then delete any reference to sp.exe and also, it stores itself in your temp folder, and temporary internet files. so delete those too. (its a good idea to clear them out anyway, they mostly just waste space) maddox rox |
| I removed it by using STM, but it wasn't easy DeaTH |
| Use msconfig to prevent it running at start up. then delete it from C:\ and all will be well. Rastanearian |
| I wanted to thank you guys for the info. ntsearch is *** s***. Don´t use it Martin Crescimo |
| I found 3 results of this file (sp.exe) have deleted all, and I really purprised when I found a link as a "value" in my regedit, it's: ms-its:mhtml:file://C:\foo.mht!http://www.free32.com/POP.CHM::/sp.exe , do not click/compy paste it into your web browser!! , maybe it's the link which we first time we got the file from , cheak : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Code Store Database/Distribution Unites/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Code Store Database\Distribution Units\{10000000-1000-0000-1000-000000000000}/Downloadinformation/CODEBASE then cheak the file value Khalid |
| Will use tons of CPU cylces and display popup ie errors every couple of seconds. Logs key entries too. Very nasty spyware. Alex T |
| SP.EXE stopped access to many webpages including this one. Ctrl, Alt Del allows you to end program, then can delete it using Windows Explorer. Also noted Norton and No adware looked straight through the program until I disabled it and put itin the trashcan. Then and only then did Norton Antivirus recognise it as Adware software. I am now having problems updating Norton Antivirus using the live update facility Steve Churchman |
| Thanks for the info about that sp.exe. I was wondering why my internet explorer can't open some pages and I couldn't delete that Adware for the first time but I deleted it by using windows task manager Manila |
| Epson Smart Panel |
| very bad, run the safe mode, and then run the AV, and all the army of spysweeper u have , it should do the trick TArek |
| key logger - check out link! See also: Link Thomas |
| It refreshes your Internet explorer browser and shows a blank page and gives a lot of Page Not Found error on random sites sunil madkar |
| Was downloaded onto computer even with firewall on, but i discovered it almost right away. Causes huge problem with IE as it displays grey screens and turns random words into search links. Remove by killing the process in Task Manager (ctrl+alt+del), then delete sp.exe in c:. Also delete a related file named sp-xxxxxxx.pf under C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch. xxxxxxx are random numbers. If you can't find the files, search on the computer by typing in sp.exe. good luck. Theresa |
| Annoying, potentionally dangerous, but easy to remove bob |
| Very annoying, you get links to www.netserach.com on every site you visit with your IE, can be removed with spybot. Naoe Ney |
| All what is said above, plus that it uses most of you cpu after the computer has been turned on for a while. |
 | it does nothing, it just sat there in my C drive doing nothing 3vil |
| Not so dangerous but very hard-to-die;5 different AV and Adware programs haven't been able to delete it definitely. |
| It prevents you from "mark message as read" in yahoo mail, and annoys the hell out of browsing hotmail.Sometimes if you cut and paste text from a website it puts embedded ntsearch links in it. Eddie |
| there is a virus trying to access the computer when opening this page. (HTML script virus HTML/Exploit.Mhtml) mo |
| Spyware. It hijack ie, links 2 page you don't want. slow your computer down. Even spyware doctor can't delete it from my computer. |
| In my PC it is in c:\ and in registry.To remove this delete the sp.exe c:\ and in registry "hkey current user\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run". Ganesh |
| I have had it a couple of times.. and it is not always true that you can clean out your temp files and run spybot adaware and change your redgedit and get rid of it you my have to surch for the deployer program. wich can be placed almost any were on you comp try searching the rundll32 file first though |
| i dont know what it is but i see it is very dangerous, i wasnt able to remove that bastard i had to rewrite windows, at the end it has blocked norton, pop-up blocker, and it was always putting stupid popup on my desktop. my pc worked so slow that i couldnt play any games or use applications. ThunderstrucK |
| creates tonnes of other files while ur surfin. It pisses me of because u cant really trust ur pc while ur having this sp.exe in ur system... There's a link here which tells u about hijackthis, but it's in french. See also: Link rob |
| I obtained it when spelled google.com wrong. Site autoloads it. Also connects to about:blank adware which changes your homepage. Al |
| Its easy to remove. Open the Windows Task Manager and click Processes tab. Find sp.exe and click 'End Process'. Delete the sp.exe from c:\ |
| It pops up at various times, causes Internet explorer symbol to show up over 20 times as all running at same time then locks up the computer. When I start up in Safe Mode then go to msconfig to get to startup I remove the check on the file sp so it can not appear at startup. I then use Zone Alarm firewall at startup. This seems to allow me to use the computer and internet for a long time without problems, But the next time I use the computer the sp file is already placed with a check so that it loads at startup.. James Morgan Scott, Jr. |
| have been trying for three months to get rid of it. can identify it, delete the se.dll file, delete related log files, but it always returns. it's the startup file sp that I cannot find and destroy. Olaf |
| That spybot can stop it. go to start up list then stop it. (sturn on teatimer first.don't let it change any registy entry Mausau2000 |
| Causes frequent system hangs, easy to delete from safe-mode. Faux |
| Pop ups all over the place mausau2000 |
| err, just put XP on computer, (upgrade from 98). when i was on 98, it crashed every three hours, and made computer run really slow ben |
| just a message from winXP when i shut down the PC... didn't bother me when on- or offline, maybe because i don't use IE or any other microsoft-program besides XP ?!? |
| I have found at myself. Has found the information on it on http://www.dbvirus.com/, and their antivirus all has cured! See also: Link Den |
| Mal-ware Category. DUH See also: Link ×÷·.·´Ż`· Phillip ·´Ż`·.·÷× |
| Because of sp.exe, a "Control Center" (with a window title of "Private Center") comes out right after my Windows XP is started. The only choice is "Fix problems" and then "Install antivirus." After I hit "Install antivirus," it came the message "Navigation to the webpage was canceled," in the window of "Antivirus software installing." (Same results appeared in different cities.) I could kill this "Privacy center" after trying for three or four times in Task Manager (ctrl+alt+del), in which "Privacy Center" is the only task. After it was killed, nothing appear and I could do nothing. Wen |
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