Overview
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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.
Homepage Hijacker: Any software that changes your browser's home page to some other site. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower.
Trojan: Any program with a hidden intent. Trojans are one of the leading causes of breaking into machines. If you pull down a program from a chat room, new group, or even from unsolicited e-mail, then the program is likely trojaned with some subversive purpose. The word Trojan can be used as a verb: To trojan a program is to add subversive functionality to an existing program. For example, a trojaned login program might be programmed to accept a certain password for any user's account that the hacker can use to log back into the system at any time. Rootkits often contain a suite of such trojaned programs.
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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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Privacy Issues:
DELFIN will establish a unique anonymous identifier for each DELFIN PromulGate user. DELFIN will provide this identifier and the member’s zip code and/or area code to its advertising agents. DELFIN will also collect certain anonymous information about the members and users of DELFIN services and provide such information to its advertising agents in a manner that may link the anonymous information with the unique anonymous identifier for each member. The advertising agents, subject to their own privacy policies, may also collect anonymous information connected to the unique anonymous identifier for each member including the members’ click patterns of web pages presented within the PromulGate service and use such information to improve their ability to send marketing messages. DELFIN and its advertising agents do not collect member’s click pattern for websites selected outside of the PromulGate Service. DELFIN and its advertising agents (not the advertised company) will then use the information described above to send targeted marketing messages (not all marketing messages will be targeted) to DELFIN PromulGate users. The messages may appear in the PromulGate Service ad windows, on the DELFIN Web Site you are visiting, or in email or other direct marketing communications to you.'
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Detection and Removal
Automatic Removal:
PestPatrol detects this.
PestPatrol removes this.
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 dvx , delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
If you find the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run vmss , delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
If you find the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\dpi, delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
If you find the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\dvx, delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
If you find the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\pcsv, delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
If you find the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\promulgate, 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:
After following the instructions above, you will still need to restore your original settings and prevent this from happening again.
Research
File Analyses:
- DelFin Media Viewer: 195.dfn · 63mm.exe · adl_mteststubm[1].exe · delfin.txt · delfinmediaviewer_sn-f2.11.00-050b1df6.pf · description.txt · dpi.exe · dpi.exe-1288a7dc.pf · init.dll · license.txt · mm15201518.stub.exe · nsvsvc.exe-0526a206.pf · patchme.exe-2c053480.pf · pcsvc.dll · pcsvc.exe · pgmonitr.exe · pgsdk.dll · pgvalidator.dll · picsvr.exe-3931cc42.pf · posttracker.exe-2d5da7dd.pf · remove_tools.html · srtin.exe · srtin.exe-1d9a984b.pf · tatss.exe-1f70ec22.pf · uninstal.log · uppicsvr.exe · uppicsvr.exe-03b2caf3.pf · user.html · vcc pgdataaccess.ocx · winproc32.exe · wsxsvc.exe.delete · wtsdfi.exe · wtsdfi.exe-2f0de634.pf