Information about sp.exe file

InternetExplorer users get hijacked to www.ntsearch.com. Solution: Put the process into quaratine using Anti-Spy.Info.

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Rating Opinion From durch Trojaner eingeschleppter Prozesse; IE linkt auf www.ntsearch.com  link for more info Niki lässt sich löschen, nachdem man mit dem Security Taskmanager den prozess "sp.exe" beendet hat 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  link for more info 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.  link for more info Joe spyware , cant surf with him when he run on the local computer make 100% cpu too  link for more info Ben alamio el mcaffe lo detecta como adware potencialmente peligroso y dice q es un programa  link for more info jesus  link for more info es una mierda, que no te deja ver hotmail ni otras paginas, y te caga media vida Un pobre usuario pedorro 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 itŽs 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 es un archivo introducido por hijackers que intenta descargar programas espias al entrar a ciertas páginas como hotmail, hay que borrarlo desabilitando restaurar sistema  link for more info Jorge complementar ao comentario anterior: para elimina-lo vá ao gerenciador de tarefas do win e finalize o processo. Vá a pesquisar e ache todos os arquivos que ele cria. Delete todos. Se o "sp.exe" não quiser ser eliminado volte ao gerenciador do win (guia processos) e torne a encerrar o processo. Volte ao win explore e delete-o. O norton detectou mas não eliminou. Também é bom observar se pressionando ALT+TAB aparece uma janelinha em branco. É sinal de que o sp.exe esta presente. Tito Lívio 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 un detector de spyware me lo detecto, ademas deke sospechamente staba abierto en los procesos!!! nose bien ke era pero lo kite y mi pc anda mejor!!  link for more info albert 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.  link for more info 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 Afecta a Outlook y genera un mensaje de error en Windows XP al tratar de chatear o abrir una pàgina Joe Lacuñada 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 donŽt 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 afecta al iexplorer y al rendimiento del ordenador haciendo que vaya mas lento. y no te cuento como va outlook de tortuga!! da gusto einna vallekana block hotmail pages and changes the way you see other pages, is located at C:\, just remove it from startup and delete it wakko Dit SpyWare programma maakt het onmogelijk om op Girotel Zakelijk Online in te loggen.  link for more info GTZ Its spyware Carlos Pone hipervínculos a ciertas palabras (mail, etc) y borra ciertas páginas que requieren contraseña. Santi 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 ese archivo no lo detectaba mi antivirus pero si molestaba porque creo que todas las paginas al entrar duraban un segundo y desaparecia quedando en blanco. Igual me meti a procesos y se me hizo raro ver el archivo y pos lo quite, igual en el regedit estaba el maldito Norman Blocks internet Connection MaD wonŽt let you open some websites. Check symantec website to remove this file.  link for more info 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 Es un ejecutable, el cual hace que algunas paginas del Internet no se muestren y en especial las relacionadas con Hotmail, "ES UN DOLOR DE CABEZA", la solucion es Fácil y Rápida...  link for more info AMIGO NEUTAL HOTMAIL x SIEMPRE 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. HELP¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ 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 itŽs 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  link for more infolink for more info Micke Sundqvist Stupid Adware, the government should sue ntsearch.com! Joe Epson Smart Panel Este archivo blockea al internet explorer y no deja usar ni el correo web de hotmail ni de yahoo. Saulyo 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  link for more info 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 EL SP.EXE NO ME DA NINGUNO DE ESOS PROBLEMAS PUEDO ABRIR TODO SIN NINGUN PROBLEMA ×÷·.·Ž¯`· MERLIN ·Ž¯`·.·÷× 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 Anti-Spy.Info, 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***. DonŽt 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 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 Daña el Internet Explorer. Las paginas se abren en blanco. Poynting 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. Trojan.Win32.spooner.f in HKCU und unter C:-entführt auf NTSEARCH,lädt Seiten nicht und lässt Compi abstürzen.zu säubern mit HIJACKTHIS in dt/engl. Der Internet Explorer ist ein Sicherheitsrisiko,auch bei höchster Sicherheitsstufe.Trojaner ist als BHO (Browser Helper Object) getarnt. Das passiert bei aktuellen Browsern, wie MozillaFirefox u.a.nicht  link for more info lululuminea 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.  link for more info rob If you know more about sp.exe, share your knowledge and help other users. 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