Sophos

Dial/MPB-D

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Opens links to websites
Protection available since 27 September 2006 06:20:12 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Dial/MPB-D is a dialer application.

Dial/MPB-D includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run Dial/MPB-D copies itself to <System>\gdimx.exe
The following registry entry is created to run gdimx.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
gdimx
<System>\gdimx.exe /nocomm

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\gdimx\
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\gdimx\

Dial/MPB-D provides an uninstall option which can be accessed via the Add or Remove Programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. The software is listed as "gdimx".

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