Removal and Blocking of IMVU's search protect

[EdwardNigmatic]

The following registry changes need to be made in order to BLOCK IMVU's search protect from installing on your machine. I have also attached the .reg file instead of needing to link it. Conduit Block.reg (286 B)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"DisallowRun"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun]
"1"="sp-downloader.exe"
"2"="spwrapper.exe"

This is the post that was removed by staff on the IMVu forums.

Let me be absolutely clear, if you installed 501.n versions of IMVU you likely have hidden conduit files and registry entries installed on your machine that were put there WITHOUT your permission EVEN IF YOU OPTED OUT!

I have developed a tool designed to make removal of all versions of IMVU search protect. I have however been forbidden from posting links to this tool on the forums. The tool still exists and has been updated for the new version 502.

It was stated that there was a concern for safety with the tool despite a clean scan from 52 different antivirus programs and Norton looking at the file first hand and whitelisting it in their anti-virus definitions. Also despite posting and disclosing the full source code of the project. Please do NOT post any further information about the tool. However since some people have downloaded it if you have questions please PM me and do not post questions in this thread. They will be removed.

So here I will share the much more difficult manual removal steps.

For now just the basic where files are located that need to be removed and the registry keys to block.

Remove these keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Conduit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Conduit

Add these keys to block
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\ DisallowRun 1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\ 1 sp-downloader.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\ 2 spwrapper.exe

WINDOWS 7 - If you know how to make a batch file use the information below. Otherwise you'll see 2 file locations and the temp folder. Clean out the temp folder or run CCleaner.

del /F /S /Q ""C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\IMVUClient\spwrapper.exe
del /F /S /Q ""C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\IMVUClient\sp-downloader.exe
set folder=""C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\Temp
cd /d %folder%

I'll be posting more information once I'm done updating the tool which I was in the middle of when I want informed about the removal.