Overview |
Vendor Notes: |
From the doc: 'This site contains erotic or pornographic visual (images, videos), audio and/or text items. It depicts sexually explicit scenes involving heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual or transsexual persons. Persons under 21 years of age or persons likely to be disturbed by this type of content are not authorized to visit this site and are not allowed to directly or indirectly access its content, download, acquire, view, read, listen or possess any document from this site such as photos, video files, sound files, written texts, advertisements or any other means of publicity, message or content belonging to this site. If you are under 21 years old, it is formally prohibited to order any item or service from this site. Furthermore, any unauthorized reproduction of the content in this site is formally prohibited. Only adults may consult the documents in this site from locations where the act of consulting such documents is in compliance with the customs, rules and applicable laws of that location. The download is free of cost and when you choose to connect you will be dial in over a premium rate telephone-no. The cost for the service is £1.50 per minute.' |
Alias: |
Ancoti.exe
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Category: |
Dialer: Software that dials a phone number. Some dialers connect to local Internet Service Providers and are beneficial as configured. Others connect to toll numbers without user awareness or permission.
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Similar Pests: |
Dialer |
Origins |
Group: |
A Lifestyle GmbH |
Date of Origin: |
February, 2002 |
Distribution |
Prevalence: |
Aconti: < 0.00005%
More Info |
Clot Factor: |
Aconti: 2
The "Clot Factor" is a measure of how much a pest "gums up" a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone. |
Growth: |
Aconti: Insufficient data to report growth |
Operation |
Platform: |
Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP |
Storage Required: |
Aconti: at least 125 KB |
Detection and Removal |
Automatic Removal: |
 PestPatrol detects this.
PestPatrol removes this.
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Manual Removal: |
Kill the process aconti.exe and delete the file aconti.exe aconti.ini aconti.log aconti.sdb acontidialer.txt |
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Stop Running Processes:
Kill these running processes with Task Manager:
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Clean Registry:
Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:
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Remove Files:
Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:
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Research |
File Analyses: |
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More Info: |
Dialer.Aconti is a dialer program that can be used to access various Web sites by dialing a high-cost phone number using the modem. The sites that can be accessed are mostly pornographic.
AllTheWeb, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, Google, HotBot, Lycos, LookSmart, MSN, Yahoo! |
Research By: |
PestPatrol's Pest Research Center |
Last Revised: |
April 25, 2005 |