Covenant Eyes is commercial spyware that tracks your web browsing activity. If Covenant Eyes is installed on your computer, you’ll see an icon in your system tray, along with a splash screen when you boot up Windows that informs you you’re being watched by Covenant Eyes. Covenant Eyes then emails your “accountability partner” your web browsing history. Covenant Eyes can be legitimately installed on a shared computer to watch a spouse or employee’s activities, but this one’s got a special religious twist: it’s really about keeping you away from porn.

I know. Covenant Eyes is rather unholy.

Though, in theory, you asked someone to install Covenant Eyes, I’d remove Covenant Eyes. Learn how to uninstall Covenant Eyes here.

Note: In any Covenant Eyes files I mention above, “%UserProfile%” is a variable referring to your current user’s profile folder. If you’re using Windows NT/2000/XP, by default this is “C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER]” (e.g., “C:\Documents and Settings\JoeSmith”). If you have any questions about manual Covenant Eyes removal, go ahead and leave a comment.

How Do You Remove Covenant Eyes Files?

Need help figuring out how to delete Covenant Eyes files? While there’s some risk involved, and you should only manually remove Covenant Eyes files if you’re comfortable editing your system, you’ll find it’s fairly easy to delete Covenant Eyes files in Windows.

How to delete Covenant Eyes files in Windows XP and Vista:

1. Click your Windows Start menu, and then click “Search.”
2. A speech bubble will pop up asking you, “What do you want to search for?” Click “All files and folders.”
3. Type a Covenant Eyes file in the search box, and select “Local Hard Drives.”
4. Click “Search.” Once the file is found, delete it.

How to stop Covenant Eyes processes:

1. Click the Start menu, select Run.
2. Type taskmgr.exe into the the Run command box, and click “OK.” You can also launch the Task Manager by pressing keys CTRL + Shift + ESC.
3. Click Processes tab, and find Covenant Eyes processes.
4. Once you’ve found the Covenant Eyes processes, right-click them and select “End Process” to kill Covenant Eyes.

How to remove Covenant Eyes registry keys:

Because your registry is such a key piece of your Windows system, you should always backup your registry before you edit it. Editing your registry can be intimidating if you’re not a computer expert, and when you change or a delete a critical registry key or value, there’s a chance you may need to reinstall your entire system. Make sure your backup your registry before editing it.

1. Select your Windows menu “Start,” and click “Run.” An “Open” field will appear. Type “regedit” and click “OK” to open up your Registry Editor.
2. Registry Editor will open as a window with two panes. The left side Registry Editor’s window lets you select various registry keys, and the right side displays the registry values of the registry key you select.
3. To find a registry key, such as any Covenant Eyes registry keys, select “Edit,” then select “Find,” and in the search bar type any of Covenant Eyes’s registry keys.
4. As soon as Covenant Eyes registry key appears, you can delete the Covenant Eyes registry key by right-clicking it and selecting “Modify,” then clicking “Delete.”

How to delete Covenant Eyes DLL files:

1. First locate Covenant Eyes DLL files you want to delete. Open your Windows Start menu, then click “Run.” Type “cmd” in Run, and click “OK.”
2. To change your current directory, type “cd” in the command box, press your “Space” key, and enter the full directory where the Covenant Eyes DLL file is located. If you’re not sure if the Covenant Eyes DLL file is located in a particular directory, enter “dir” in the command box to display a directory’s contents. To go one directory back, enter “cd ..” in the command box and press “Enter.”
3. When you’ve located the Covenant Eyes DLL file you want to remove, type “regsvr32 /u SampleDLLName.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 /u jl27script.dll”) and press your “Enter” key.

That’s it. If you want to restore any Covenant Eyes DLL file you removed, type “regsvr32 DLLJustDeleted.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 jl27script.dll”) into your command box, and press your “Enter” key.

Did Covenant Eyes change your homepage?

1. Click Windows Start menu > Control Panel > Internet Options.
2. Under Home Page, select the General > Use Default.
3. Type in the URL you want as your home page (e.g., “http://www.homepage.com”).
4. Select Apply > OK.
5. You’ll want to open a fresh web page and make sure that your new default home page pops up.

Covenant Eyes Removal Tip

Is your computer acting funny after deleting any Covenant Eyes files? I recommend using a program like File Recover from PC Tools. File Recover saves deleted files that otherwise can’t be recovered by Windows operating sytem.

Want to save time finding Covenant Eyes files? Download Spyware Doctor, let it find the Covenant Eyes files for you, and then manually delete Covenant Eyes files.

How Did You Get Covenant Eyes?

Wondering how Covenant Eyes ended up on your PC? If you’re infected with Covenant Eyes or other badware, perhaps you were using…

• Freeware or shareware: Did you download and install shareware or freeware? These low-cost or free software applications may come bundled with spyware, adware, or programs like Covenant Eyes. Sometimes adware is attached to the free software to “pay” developers for the cost of creating the software, and more often spyware is secretly attached to free software to harm your computer and steal your personal and financial information.
• Peer-to-peer software: Do you use a peer-to-peer (P2P) program or other application with a shared network? When you use these applications, you put your system at risk for unknowingly downloading an infected file, including applications like Covenant Eyes.
• Questionable websites: Did you visit a website that’s of questionable nature? When you visit malicious sites that are fishy and phishy, badware may be automatically downloaded and installed onto your computer, sometimes including applications like Covenant Eyes. I recommend you use Firefox web browser, if you don’t already.

Understanding Covenant Eyes

If you’re infected with Covenant Eyes, you should know what you’re fighting. I’ll explain some definitions related to Covenant Eyes.

Covenant Eyes May Be Spyware

Spyware is any software or malware used to spy or track your computer activity. While some spyware is legitimately and intentionally installed by parents or employers to monitor Internet activity on a computer, spyware may be installed maliciously. Often spyware may come bundled with downloads of free software or come in the form of a cookie via a website, and this spyware may track your Internet activity or may steal secret account usernames and passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal and financial information.