BTV Dialer

Overview

Summary

Recent restraining orders and pending court cases against BTV industries Court case pertains to 900 pay per dial charges at $3.99 per minute and fake "You won a SonyPlaystations 2 spam e-mail mass mailings.

Vendor Description

A program that (secretly) changes your dialup connection setting so that instead of calling your local internet provider, your Pc calls some very expensive 0900 or international phone number

Alias

Adware/RVP [Panda], BTV.EXE, Dialer.LJ [Panda], Trojan.Win32.Small.an [Kaspersky],

Category

Dialer: Software that dials a phone number. Some dialers connect to local Internet Service Providers and are beneficial as configured. Others connect to toll numbers without user awareness or permission.

Downloader: A program designed to retrieve and install additional files, when run. Most will be configured to retrieve from a designated web or FTP site.

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.

Origins

Group

BTV Industries

Mailing Address

BTV IndustriesEl Cangrejo 15 Mala,Lanzarote, 35543Canary Islands ES

Date of Origin

August, 2003

Place of Origin

Canary Islands

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

Follow these steps to remove BTV Dialer from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

Stop Running Processes:

Kill these running processes with Task Manager:

Clean Registry:

Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:

Remove Files:

Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

Remove Directories:

Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:

BO2KServerSniper BPV1a.dll BPV2s.dll BScan BTGrab BTVDialer BUTTSniffer BUTTSniffer0.9.1 BUTTSniffer0.9.2 BUTTSniffer0.9.3