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Removal of AccessPlugin - How to deal with Dialers

Dialers - is quite rare type of threats nowadays but they still can cause serious problems to you. The matter is that computer dialer uses you phone line to dial special phone numbers (most popular are adult content dialers). Calling those numbers will cost you lot of money thats why removing dialer from your PC is urgent and necassary procedure. Learn more about particular type of dialers - AccessPlugin - and read how you can remove it without extra efforts.

AccessPlugin Removal Solution

AccessPlugin usually doesn't create visible folders in, for example, Program Files folder, or somewhere else. Main executable file of AccessPlugin is hotporn.exe but it alos created some additional .exe and .dll files, We developed specual utility to remove AccessPlugin. Click here to download it:

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Threat's description and solution are developed by Security Stronghold security team.

On this page you can also read about:

Definition of AccessPlugin? Technical details of AccessPlugin threat.

Tutorial on manual AccessPlugin removal.

Dialers's profile

Name of the dialer:

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Affected OS:

AccessPlugin

hotporn.exe

Dialer

Win32 (Windows 9x, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Seven)

A AccessPlugin is a software that uses a PC's modem to establish a dialup connection to the Internet. Their activity usually results in acquisition high phone drafts. AccessPlugin Connects a discredited machine to the Wide-Area Network through precious phone numbers. AccessPlugin develops numerous links to prospectively unsafe web resources, places desktop shortcuts to distrustful Web sites, adds manifold bookmarks to the web browser's Favorites list. AccessPlugin suggests access to the Internet by the agency of high-cost telephone numbers. It redirects a web browser to defined Web resources and Revises on-default home page without asking for buyer permission.

AccessPlugin infection

Dialers have not a real difference from other computer virus when they get installed onto your computer without your knowledge. If your antivirus software let AccessPlugin get to your PC commonly it is unable to remove it as well. Firewalls are great tools to prevent dialer from accessing premium rate numbers. Generally, AccessPlugin copies its file(s) to your hard disk. Its typical file name is hotporn.exe. Then it creates new startup key with name AccessPlugin and value hotporn.exe. You can also find it in your processes list with name hotporn.exe or AccessPlugin.

How to remove AccessPlugin?

In most cases your basic antivirus fails to get rid of a certain dialer. Solution from SecurityStronghold.com is intended to remove AccessPlugin, and we provide manual dialer removal instructions as well as autimatic removal tool. Instructions allow the experienced user manually remove all the files, directories, registry entries and other objects that belong to AccessPlugin. If you consider yourself a "novice" we strongly recommend you to use AccessPlugin Removal Tool.

So, to solve problem with AccessPlugin on your PC, you need to:

1. Remove the following processes and delete the appropriate files:

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2. Remove the following directories:

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3. Remove the following malicious registry entries and\or values:

Key: clsid\{50f2ff7f-50f2ff7f-50f2ff7f-50f2ff7f-50f2ff7f}
Value: @

Key: CLSID\{d8efadf1-9009-11d6-8c73-608c5dc19089}

Key: SOFTWARE\WebDialler
Value: date

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