Home & Home OfficeBusinessPartnersClubAbout Security Stronghold

Removal of WinPoet DSL - 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 - WinPoet DSL - and read how you can remove it without extra efforts.

WinPoet DSL Removal Solution

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

Download WinPoet DSL Removal Tool

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

On this page you can also read about:

Definition of WinPoet DSL? Technical details of WinPoet DSL threat.

Tutorial on manual WinPoet DSL removal.

Dialers's profile

Name of the dialer:

Command or file name:

Threat type:

Affected OS:

WinPoet DSL

WrDialer.exe

Dialer

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

Most WinPoet DSLs are parasitic programs. A exemplary WinPoet DSL activates on every PC startup and attempts to screen its presence in the platform. Consumers of broadband lines like DSL, LAN or kinder are not influenceed, because their computers ordinarily have no modulators installed. WinPoet DSL is objectiveed to consumers of dialup Wide-Area Network services. Pests affect dominantly computers that run MS Windows operating system and have demodulators installed. It is known that WinPoet DSL can also be dropped by concrete virus dangeres, trojan horses or network worms.

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

How to remove WinPoet DSL?

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

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

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

no information

2. Remove the following directories:

no information

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

no information

Attention: If you can't locate certain files or folders we recommend you to use
Here are the descriptions of problems connected with WinPoet DSL and WrDialer.exe we received earlier:

Problem Summary: I am having a problem removing this

I have down loaded the removal tool, and I start it up...then my computer shuts down after about 5 minutes...This is happening also when I am watching a film or show on the internet...I want to fix this. Please help Thank you Cheryl

Our support team contacted Cheryl with the solution of the problem described.

Problem Summary: download winpoet dial up

i can not fidn free download winpoet for windows 2000.

The problem of Aleksandar Stojanovic was resolved by our support team.

Problem Summary: Lost my WinPoet on my computer

Was trying to repair my WinPoet on my windows Vista and ended up removing it can\'t connect to the internet at all.

We examined this request and answered Dianna Tivis by email.

Problem Summary: WinPoET is not installed on my PC

My DSL Internet connection has gone away twice and when I run diagnostics, it says I don\'t have WinPoET. How do I get it and what does it do?

Reply of our support team was forwarded to Pam Thompson via email.

Problem Summary: Cannot remove winpoet v5.01

How to uninstall winpoet from my computer?? I tried to use the uninstall window programs found in control panel but the winpoet program isn\'t found in the list of program.. and when i tried to simply delete the whole winpoet folder from C drive, the folder couldn\'t be removed too..

We worked out the solution of descirbed problem and sent our suggestions to lech lee.

Next threat: Awmcash.biz »

Learn more about WinPoet DSL and WrDialer.exe »

« Back to catalog