Yeah, I almost did that. I stumbled on the program last week and annihilated it from my system.
There are a bunch of DLLs associated with the BDE program, but a couple, like 'mspbde40.dll' that are associated with various Microsoft programs (apparantly, 'Microsoft Jet Paradox Isam' - sounds like a Middle East millitary operation.)
The program hides itself in different locations all over your hard drive, including copies of itself in your OS root and/system32 folders (if you're running Windoze)
It's a bitch and a half to purge. There's no unistaller, and it's got dozens of registry entries to manually erase.
(Search for 'bde' and 'b3d' on your HD and your registry to make sure you get it all.)
I can only imagine the looks on people's faces when a gigantic 3D Cameron Diaz appears on people's computer screens and commandeers their system.
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Yeah, I almost did that. I stumbled on the program last week and annihilated it from my system.
There are a bunch of DLLs associated with the BDE program, but a couple, like 'mspbde40.dll' that are associated with various Microsoft programs (apparantly, 'Microsoft Jet Paradox Isam' - sounds like a Middle East millitary operation.)
I'm not sure about the 'unusable' part, but uninstalling KaZaa definitly does NOT uninstall the BDE program.
:)
Maybe I'm anal, but I sure don't like the idea of programs lying dormant on my computer that may or may not be 'switched on'.
I'm taking no chances.
It's legit, irritatingly enough.
/system32 folders (if you're running Windoze)
The program hides itself in different locations all over your hard drive, including copies of itself in your OS root and
It's a bitch and a half to purge. There's no unistaller, and it's got dozens of registry entries to manually erase.
(Search for 'bde' and 'b3d' on your HD and your registry to make sure you get it all.)
I can only imagine the looks on people's faces when a gigantic 3D Cameron Diaz appears on people's computer screens and commandeers their system.