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About IEAccess
IEAccess is an ActiveX control used to download and install premium-rate diallers, primarily for porn sites. It has the many variants: IEAccess/IEDial , IEAccess/HTMLAccess , IEAccess/HTMLDialer are broadly similar but use different filenames and IDs; IEAccess/EGDial is based on IEAccess/HTMLDialer , with an extra file. The IEDial variant is known to be installed automatically, without prompting, on Internet Explorer versions earlier than IE6 Service Pack 1, thanks to a security hole. The installer pages exploit this to run an EXE which adds 'Electronic Group' to the list of trusted publishers whose software IE will install automatically without asking.
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How to Remove IEAccess?
- Open the 'Downloaded Program Files' in the Windows folder, right-click the 'IEDial class' entry and remove it.
- Open a DOS command prompt window ( Start > Run , type 'cmd'(Windows NT/2000/X) or 'command'(Windows 95/98/Me)) and enter the following command,
for Windows 95/98/Me:
"%WinDir%\System\regsvr32.exe" /u "%WinDir%\System\IEAccess2.dll"
Or, for Windows NT/2000/XP:
regsvr32 /u "%WinDir%\System32\IEAccess2.dll"
- Dlete the 'IEAccess2.dll' file in the Windows System[32] folder.
- Open the registry editor (Start->Run->regedit) and delete the following key: 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\egroup'
- Expand the key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing\Trust Database\0' and delete the entry with the value 'ELECTRONIC GROUP'. (It's probably a good idea to keep this key completely empty.)
- Expand the key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\TrustedPublisher\Certificates', find and delete Electronic Group's key. It should begin with '08F573...'.
- Check and delete the 'eGroup' folder in the Windows folder as well as entries in the more usual Program Files folder.
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