How to remove AcroIEHelper error

AcroIEHelper.ocx file information

The process AcroIEHelper Module belongs to the software Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Creative Suite or DVD Solution or Acrobat Reader or Home Cinema or AcroIEHelper.ocx or AcroIEHelper Module or Application Mover or AllPicturez or Adobe Acrobat 4.0, or Mjuice Components or Stamps.com or Studio Buddy or HyperCam or Tournament Dreams College or SmartSound Quicktracks Plugin or Microsoft Picture It! Express or VIA Audio Driver Setup Program or Steam(TM) or Adobe Premiere or Acoustica Effects Pack or LEARN Microsoft® Word xp or Feeding.Frenzy or IDAutomation.com Linear or NASCAR® Racing 2002 Season or Sonic.net Accelerator or SiS630_730 V or GameTap or Microsoft Office Excel Viewer or AstroPop Deluxe or Devastation or Adobe Common File Installer or Able2Extract Professional v or Mozilla Firefox or Project Raptor by Adobe Systems, Incorporated (www.adobe.com).

Description: AcroIEHelper.ocx is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files" - mainly C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\ActiveX\. The file size on Windows XP is 37808 bytes.
This .dll file is a Browser Helper Object (BHO) that runs automatically every time you start your Internet browser. BHOs are not stopped by personal firewalls, because they are identified by the firewall as your browser itself. BHOs are often used by adware and spyware. The unique ID of this BHO is 06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3. The program has no visible window. It is able to monitor Internet browser. The service has no detailed description. It is not a Windows system file. File AcroIEHelper.ocx is a Verisign signed file. It is certified by a trustworthy company. The program can be uninstalled in the Control Panel. Therefore the technical security rating is 38% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.

External information from Tony Klein:

• This legitimate BHO (AcroIEhelper.ocx, AcroIEhelper.dll) is related to Adobe Acrobat reader

Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as AcroIEHelper.ocx, particularly if they are located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Thus check the AcroIEHelper.ocx process on your pc whether it is pest. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. It is one of the Top Download Picks of 2005 of The Washington Post and PC World.

Links: AcroIEHelper.ocx, AcroIEHelper.ocx

Ein Plug in welches zu Adobe Acrobat gehört. Es ermöglicht das öffenen von PDF´s im IE
  opi-wahn  

gehört zu Adobe Acrobat 5.xx es handelt sich um ein Browserplugin, was dem IE ermöglicht pdf´s wiederzugeben
  opi-wahn  

Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin. Don't like it that much. Use FoxIt Reader myself. So meh.
  Kisara  

Running XP. Disabled this BHO and pdf's will no longer read on IE.
   

File is initiated at Start-Up and facilitates opening of web based PDF documents; however seems a waste of resources to keep this continually running.
  Detourdave  

Compromises IE after viewing PDf document having to shut down IE consistanly
  Carlo Pena II  

Adobe should have an auto-load ON/OFF option. At the min. it wastes resources when not used.
  vvirmani  

Quite Dangerous - part of Acrobat Reader (and only reader, with browser plugin enabled) 5 & 6. Spys on URLs entered (browser habbits) and one time i found log files in random places (with same content) called acroiehelper.log Opened and found copys of web history, usernames and passwords, credit card numbers, acrobat run count info and more that is private. A version of this is in the version 7 of Reader, but is harmless as long as you disable the "Show file in IE window" and "Browser Plug-in" settings. Files clicked open in acrobat instead of IE.
   

Highly suspetious, yet to research: As OCX files are COM objects which contain plenty of liberary of codes. I am not convinced with amount of time it takes to load Acrobat Reader. Because if it was jusk to read to pdf files into explorer, it could have been done in just few functions - in other words it should be pritty fast to load. As per me, 90% (9 out of 10) companies are using embeded functions inside the COM objects (DLL, OCX, etc) to feed back user info - that is for spyware purpose. Let me research with it & will post my full story.... thanks.
  webfly  

just an explorer plugin, can be avoided when installing Acrobat Reader
  ByteMe  

In XpSp2 it can be disabled with tools- manage add ons without losing ability to view web pdfs
  Will  

It keeps running when not using acrobat reader. Computer has kept locking up since it appeared in "Task Manager" Is taking 33%
  jodi  

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