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Remove StripPlayer Spyware
About StripPlayer
StripPlayer is a downloader for a premium-rate phone dialer providing access to the porn site strip-player.com. The program can be installed totally automatically on versions of Internet Explorer older than IE6 Service Pack 1, as a security hole is exploited to add the manufacturers, 'Electronic Group', to the list of publishers you trust, allowing them to install any software they like.
How to Remove StripPlayer ?
To remove StripPlayer from your computer:
- Open the registry (Start->Run->regedit) and delete the following keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ActiveStripSetup.EGStripDownload
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ActiveStripSetup.EGStripDownload.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E3F7205F-2AE0-4BF0-816B-2D24A5F20EC7}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{357AA41A-B7A8-4632-A27D-5B980B25CF43}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{BC23F736-C5BE-47FB-B459-1757933E5DF3}
- Open the System folder (in the Windows folder, 'System32' under Windows XP/2000/NT, or 'System' under Windows Me/98/95), and delete the ActiveStripSetup.dll file.
- Delete the folder 'C:\Program Files\strip-player' and any links to it on the desktop and/or Start menu.
- Check the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing\Trust Database\0 for an entry with the value 'Electronic Group'. Delete it if it exists, if so, patching/updating IE is probably a very good idea.
- You can also go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\TrustedPublisher\Certificates and delete Electronic Group's key. It should begin '08F573...'.
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