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

What is Apropos

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Some dialers are true softwares developed by wide-area net service providers to defuse the procedure of creation an Internet connection or produced by certain companies for various marketing destinations. Although best of all Aproposs are very identical to innitial virus infectiones, their assignment ways are varied. The installation is made with consumer consent. Their producers run unchancy websites filled with ill-intentioned code or spread unreliebly commersializing pop-ups. Practically all Aproposs are developed for ad targets. This means that all further global Internet connections will be made through costly phone number instead of local lnternet service provider's on-default one.

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

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How to remove Apropos?

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

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

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

• aproposclientinstaller[1].exe
• cxtpls.dll
• cxtpls.exe
• cxtpls_loader.exe
• data.bin
• proxystub.dll
• wk_122.exe
• wk_123.exe
• wk_12a.exe
• wk_12b.exe
• wk_12d.exe
• wk_13a.exe
• wk_395.exe
• ulioci.exe

2. Remove the following directories:

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

• Key: clsid\{bc333116-6ea1-40a1-9d07-ecb192db8cea}
  Value: @
• Key: interface\{b548b7d8-3d03-4aed-a6a1-4251fad00c10}\inavigateevent
  Value: @
• Key: interface\{b99a727f-0782-4a71-bcc2-6e1e66414904}\inavigateevent2
  Value: @
• Key: interface\{bc333116-6ea1-40a1-9d07-ecb192db8cea}
  Value: @
• Key: software\apropos
  Value: @
• Key: software\classes\clsid\{b5ab638f-d76c-415b-a8f2-f3ceac502212}
  Value: @
• Key: software\autoloader\aproposclient downloaded 1
  Value: @
• Key: software\envolo\autoupdate\state
  Value: @
• Key: software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\browser helper objects
  \{016235be-59d4-4ceb-add5-e2378282a1d9} \update_count 0
  Value: @
• Key: software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run autoupdater
  Value: @
• Key: "software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run autoupdater ""c:\program files
  \autoupdate\autoupdate.exe"""
  Value: @
• Key: software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\autoloaderaproposclient
  Value: @
• Key: software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\autoloadertw011aklknla
  Value: @
• Key: software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\autoupdater
  Value: @
• Key: software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\pm7r36p
  Value: @
• Key: .default\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\internet settings\zonemap
  \domains\apropos-media.com
  Value: @

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Uninstall Apropos related programs from Control Panel

We recommend you to check list of installed programs and search for Apropos entry or other unknown and suspicious programs. Below are instructions for different version if Windows. In some cases adware programs are protected by malicious service or process and it will not allow you to uninstall it. If Apropos won't uninstall or gives you error message that you do not have sufficient rights to do this perform below instructions in Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking or use WiperSoft Antispyware Malware Remediation Tool.

Windows 8

• Right click on the bottom left corner of the screen (while on your desktop)

• In the menu choose Control Panel

• Click Uninstall a program under Programs and Features.

• Locate Apropos or other related suspicious program.

• Click Uninstall button.

• Wait until uninstall process is complete.

Windows 7

• Click Start and choose Control Panel.

• Choose Programs and Features and Uninstall a program.

• In the list of installed programs find Apropos

• Click Uninstall button.

Windows XP

• Click Start

• In the menu choose Control Panel

• Choose Add / Remove Programs.

• Find Apropos related entries.

• Click Remove button.

 

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