Blazefind

According to the company, "Blazefind is a search engine that give you access to a wide range of search results enhanced by relevant images". The more popular understanding of this program is that it is a browser hijacker that can change your home page and also redirect searches to its own search engine. Webroot Spy Sweeper identifies that as a program that should be removed from your computer. You can try a fully working version of Webroot Spy Sweeper - free for 14 days to remove this program and many other spyware and adware applications to you might not even know that exist on your computer.

If you feel comfortable with modifying your computer's registry, you can follow the below instructions for removing BlazeFind from your computer. We only recommend this for experienced users:

To remove BlazeFind,

  1. In your add/remove programs, look for the following programs and run their uninstaller. (Please carefully read each of the uninstall questions to prevent the uninstaller from cancelling).
    • IE Search Bar (Internet Explorer Search Bar) * Company Name never appears in program
    • Windows Search Functions
    • Windows SA
  2. For further verification that this program has been uninstalled, look for the below registry keys and make sure they have been deleted. You can bring up your registry by click on "start" and then "run". In the box type "regedit". Follow the below instructions.
    • Look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run - delete the key value that says "Windows SA" = "%PROGRAMFILES%\WindowsSA\omniscient.exe"
    • Look for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop - delete the below keys
      • "Taskbar" = "[binary data]"
      • TaskbarWinXp" = "[binary data]"
    • Delete the below registry keys for BlazeFind if they exist:
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BridgeX.Installer
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WindowsSaBand.WinSaBand
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WindowsSaBand.WinSaBand.1
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{83DE62E0-5805-11D8-9B25-00E04C60FAF2}
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{15AD4789-CDB4-47E1-A9DA-992EE8E6BAD6}
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{14D2CFFE-6656-4BEC-8D9E-DDE6F2D4EAE5}
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{C5941EE5-6DFA-11D8-86B0-0002441A9695}
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{8C505A6B-124B-4768-8FD3-1A066C839848}
      • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Typelib\{0B3569D7-1EA4-4CBA-AC13-225902619789}
      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\UNINSTALL\Windows SR 2.0
      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\UNINSTALL\Windows SA
      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{83DE62E0-5805-11D8-9B25-00E04C60FAF2}
      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\microsoft\code store database\distribution units\{15ad4789-cdb4-47e1-a9da-992ee8e6bad6}
      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows SA
      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DownloadManager
      • HKEY_ALL_USERS\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{83DE62E0-5805-11D8-9B25-00E04C60FAF2}

Updated: 11/13/2005
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