bs3.dll and bsx5.dll not found??

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What happened? I downloaded this Torrent program. Then I was disconnected from the internet. I decided to restart my computer and two RUNDLL things popped up.

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Can anyone help me??? :(

[RichmondVA]

Yeah dude. Here's what happened. You downloaded a program that's looking for the file bs3.dll and bxs5.dll in your windows directory. For whatever reason, the install for the program didn't work so those files aren't there.

There are three solutions:

1) Do a search for those two files and copy them to c:\windows. Or see if you can find them on the internet. However this a very crappy solution. Those two dll's are used by an advertising program. So essentially what you're doing is saying "Oops, your crappy adware didn't install on my machine properly. Let me help you screw me."

2) Download Spybot and/or Adaware and let them clean it off your system.

3) Clean the programs off manually using regedit. Directions here: http://doxdesk.com/parasite/BookedSpace.html

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So I should download those two files off the internet first, and then clean them off via Adware?

I did some searching and researching, and found that they are used by advertising programs, just how you just informed me. Because of that, I didn't think my computer was in trouble. It is still annoying though, and I'd like my OS to run how it should.

Seriously, thanks for your help. I think I'm going to do this now. I'm not sure what the chances of someone sharing ad-parasites though....hmmm.

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I wasn't able to find either of those files anywhere for download. It's probably because everyone's trying to get rid of them! hehe.

Anyone have spare ad DLLs handy? *sigh*

[RichmondVA]

Just go ahead and see if you can clean the faulty programs via adaware. Don't worry about the two .dlls. Adaware should still be able to get into the registry and clean it up.

If you have Norton Utilities or anything similar, a decent system-utility should be able to just delete the keys in the registry that are asking for those .dll files.

Or you can run regedit, do a search for bs3.dll and bxs5.dll and just delete those keys yourself.