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'BroadcastPC is the first company to allow content providers, advertisers, and computer users alike to successfully break free from the limitations associated with streaming video. By bringing the best of television and the Internet to a captivating new medium, Broadcastpc has created an impactful and engaging new experience on the Web. Built using patent pending technology, this revolutionary new method of delivering full screen, high definition video content to the desktop allows for a continuous and reliable broadcast to an infinite number of computer users at the exact same time, independent of the speed of a user's Internet connection. This occurs regardless of whether users are online or offline at the time of broadcast. there is never any latency or content buffering.' -- http://www.broadcastpc.tv/about.php
'BroadcastPC has built the world's first truly interactive Broadcast Network on the Internet. Broadcast your digital video to our 5 million desktops at YOUR command! Determine exactly when and to whom your digital video appears. BroadcastPC controls precisely when a content provider's broadcast-quaility digital video is presented to our 5 million desktops. Simultaneous Viewing. BroadcastPC creates a true "shared viewing experience" by broadcasting to ALL users simultaneously. Content providers can precisely time their digital video content delivery. Broadcasts can even utilize scheduling based on local times zones around the world. BroadcastPC is broadcast-quality. Content providers can utilize their TRUE broadcast-quality assets they have produced for television and film. The BroadcastPC software application has been downloaded by our users and currently resides on 5 million desktops. BroadcastPC controls precisely how, when and to whom a marketer's TV spot appears, along with HTML.' -- http://www.broadcastpc.tv/newintroduction.php
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Spyware: Any product that employs a user's Internet connection in the background without their knowledge, and gathers/transmits info on the user or their behavior. Many spyware products will collect referrer info (information from your web browser which reveals what URL you linked from), your IP address (a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer), system information (such as time of visit, type of browser used, the operating system and platform, and CPU speed.) Spyware products sometimes wrap other commercial products, and are introduced to machines when those commercial products are installed. See also Adware.
Adware: Software that displays popup/popunder ads when the primary user interface is not visible or which do not appear to be assocaited with the product.
Downloader: A program designed to retrieve and install additional files, when run. Most will be configured to retrieve from a designated web or FTP site.
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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.
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PestPatrol detects this.
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Manual Removal:
Kill these running processes with Task Manager:
Go To the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
If you find the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\breg, delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
If you find the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\runonce\btvc, delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
Unregister these DLLs with Regsvr32, then reboot:
Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:
Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:
Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:
Research
File Analyses:
- BroadcastPC: 9.exe · bcpc.exe · bpc.exe · bpc.reg · bpc_inst.exe · btv.exe · tvm.exe · tvmbho.dll · tvmcore.dll