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Remove FlashTrack
About FlashTrack Spyware
FlashTrack is an IE BHO (Browser Helper Object). FlashTrack monitors web pages viewed and terms entered into forms on search engines, when they match with a list of targeted sites and search terms, it will open a pop-up window to show a predetermined advertisement .
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How to Remove FlashTrack?
There is an automatic removal option for FlashTrack. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, find the entry for 'FTApp', 'flt' or 'FT remove', select it and click Remove to delete the program from your computer.
To manually remove the program:
- Unregister the component of the program.
Open a DOS command prompt window (Click Start > Run, type 'cmd' or 'command'), and enter the following commands:
for the FTApp variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\ftapp\ftapp.dll"
Or, for the Flt variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\flt\flt.dll"
Or, for the XMode variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Xmod\xm320.dll"
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Reg2\reg2.dll"
- Restart the computer.
- Remove the 'ftapp' or 'flt' folder in 'Program Files' on the C:\ drive.
For Xmode variant, remove the folder 'reg2' and 'XMode' in 'Program Files' folder on the C:\ drive.
- Open the registry editor(Start >Run, type 'regedit' and click Ok), delete the following key if they exist:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FTApp
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\flt
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