Sophos

Dial/Platform-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 31 March 2005 13:15:17 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Dial/Platform-A is a dialler application which dials up a premium rate phoneline.

Dial/Platform-A drops the file loader.dll in the <windows>\system folder. It
will register it as a Browser Helper Object with the following registry
entries:

HKCR\CLSID\(2E246FAE-8420-11D9-870D-000C2917DE7F)\
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
(2E246FAE-8420-11D9-870D-000C2917DE7F)\

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