Remove Altcontrol. Description and removal instructions

Title: Altcontrol
Type: Adware	Severity scale: (39 / 100)

Altcontrol is a Korean based adware program that serves commercial pop-up advertisements. It also can contact a predetermined web server and download specific instructions, which allow the parasite to change the web browser's default home and search pages and some related settings without asking for user's permission. Altcontrol must be manually installed. It automatically runs on every Windows startup.

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Altcontrol properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Altcontrol removal:

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Altcontrol manual removal:

Kill processes:
altcontrole.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\atlcontrol
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\altcontrol
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\altcontrol

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
altcontrole.exe, altcontrol.dll

HELP:
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Other programs to remove Altcontrol:

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Information added: 08/11/05
Information updated: 08/11/05

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