Description

An Japanese ActiveX-based premium rate dialler.

Variants

XDialer/DialX: installs DialX.ocx in the System folder.

XDialer/XDial: installs XDial.ocx in the System folder.

XDialer/AButton: installs AButton.ocx in the System folder.

Distribution

Installed by ActiveX drive-by-download on porn site pop-up ads from pctlca.com.

What it does

Advertising

No.

Privacy violation

No.

Security issues

No.

Stability problems

No.

Removal

Open a DOS command prompt window (Start->Programs->Accessories) and enter the following commands (for XDialer/DialX):

cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u DialX.ocx

Or, for XDialer/XDial:

cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u XDial.ocx

Or, for XDialer/AButton:

cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u AButton.ocx

You can then delete the DialX.ocx, XDial.ocx or AButton.ocx file in the System folder (which is inside the Windows folder, and is called 'System' on Windows 95/98/Me, and 'System32' on Windows NT/2000/XP), and the XDialer class in the Downloaded Program Files folder (again, inside the Windows folder). The name of the class will be {9E7138EE-4E7B-11D5-94EF-006008A4ED7F} for the DialX variant or {69A4F9FF-E915-11D5-A9F1-009099104002} for XDial.