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TVMD.
Below are step by step instructions to remove TVMD from your computer.
Note: This process is difficult and is not recommend unless you are an expert in this field. The manual process is also dangerous as the removal process requires you to access and edit sensitive files in the registry of your machine and run the risk of totally destroying your computer.

An important point to remember when removing TVMD is to delete all parts of the TVMD code. This is a must as TVMD will rebuild itself and will result in further spreading of the spyware parasite.

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TVMD Description
TVMD -- also known as TVMedia -- is an Internet Explorer browser helper object that may display pop-up advertisements from servers such as ads.centralmedia.ws. TVMD may also download and install code from its controlling server at c.centralmedia.ws.

TV Media Removal Instructions

TVMedia/BHO and its variant SSK cannot be removed whilst the Windows shell (explorer.exe) is running. One way to avoid this is to boot to Safe Mode (hammer the F8 key whilst booting to get the menu that leads to Safe Mode) then delete the 'TV Media' or 'SurfSideKick 2' folder in Program Files.

In Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 there is a slightly quicker way. Open a DOS command prompt window (from 'Accessories' in the 'Programs' menu in 'Start'). Then open the Task Manager (from the System Tray menu or pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete), select the explorer.exe process and end it. The task bar and other Windows shell elements will disappear.

In the command prompt window, enter, for the BHO variant:
del "\Program Files\TV Media"
explorer

Or, for the SSK variant:
del "\Program Files\SurfSideKick 2"
explorer

Next, to clean up, open the Registry (click 'Start', choose 'Run', enter 'regedit'), and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce (BHO variant) or just ...\Run (SSK variant). Delete the entry 'TV Media' pointing to Tvm.exe (BHO variant) or 'SurfSideKick 2' (SSK variant). Now do the same in the tree HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

You can also delete the key/entry named {707E6F76-9FFB-4920-A976-EA101271BC25} (BHO variant) or {CA0E28FA-1AFD-4C21-A8DC-70EB5BE2F076} (SSK variant) from the keys HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UrlSearchHooks.

Jeired variant
Open a DOS command prompt window (from 'Accessories' in the 'Programs' menu in 'Start') and enter the following commands:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "..\jeired.dll"
Reboot and you should be able to delete the jeired.dll file inside the Windows folder.

TVMD, TVTMD, MSMGT variants
Open the registry (click 'Start', choose 'Run', enter 'regedit') and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete the TVMD, TVTMD or MSMGT entry.

Reboot and you should be able to delete the TVMD.exe, TVTMD.exe or MSMGT.exe files from the Windows folder.

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