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Removal of BTV Dialer - 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 - BTV Dialer - and read how you can remove it without extra efforts.

BTV Dialer Removal Solution

BTV Dialer usually doesn't create visible folders in, for example, Program Files folder, or somewhere else. Main executable file of BTV Dialer is flashtalk.exe but it alos created some additional .exe and .dll files, We developed specual utility to remove BTV Dialer. 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 BTV Dialer? Technical details of BTV Dialer threat.

Tutorial on manual BTV Dialer removal.

Dialers's profile

Name of the dialer:

Command or file name:

Threat type:

Affected OS:

BTV Dialer

flashtalk.exe

Dialer

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

A connection is made by dialing a predefined phone number. Best of all BTV Dialers are parasitic programs. They do not spread by themselves and commonly have to be installed as any other applications with or without consumer information content. Some dialers are true applications developed by global Internet service providers to defuse the operation of creation an WAD connection or made by defined companies for diverse marketing targets. The buyer is demanded to download and by yourself setup a particular BTV Dialer with a view to receive an admission to these collections. Pornographic, software and inadmissible music download websites propose paid access to their wide collections.

BTV Dialer 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 BTV Dialer 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, BTV Dialer copies its file(s) to your hard disk. Its typical file name is flashtalk.exe. Then it creates new startup key with name BTV Dialer and value flashtalk.exe. You can also find it in your processes list with name flashtalk.exe or BTV Dialer.

How to remove BTV Dialer?

In most cases your basic antivirus fails to get rid of a certain dialer. Solution from SecurityStronghold.com is intended to remove BTV Dialer, 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 BTV Dialer. If you consider yourself a "novice" we strongly recommend you to use BTV Dialer Removal Tool.

So, to solve problem with BTV Dialer 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:

• %programfiles%\diallerprogram\
• %programfiles%\flashtalk\
• %programfiles%\flashtalk\txt\
• %programfiles%\diallerprogram\

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

Key: software\btv\80.zip\file count
Value: @

Key: software\btv\80.zip\play wmp
Value: @

Key: software\btv\80.zip\stage
Value: @

Key: software\btv\80.zip\url
Value: @

Key: software\btv\80.zip\window end
Value: @

Key: software\btv\80.zip\window start
Value: @

Key: software\btv

Attention: If you can't locate certain files or folders we recommend you to use

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