Remove Winupie. Description and removal instructions

Title: Winupie
Type: Adware	Severity scale: (31 / 100)

Winupie is an adware program that displays commercial pop-up advertisements. It also can download from the Internet and execute arbitrary code. Winupie is distributed through ActiveX drive-by downloads and therefore can get into the system while visiting some insecure web sites. The threat runs on every Windows startup.

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Winupie properties:
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Winupie removal:

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Winupie manual removal:

Kill processes:
winupie.exe, axconfig.dll

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\winpopup

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Unregister DLLs:
axconfig.dll

HELP:
how to unregister malicious DLLs

Delete files:
winupie.exe, axconfig.dll

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
Winupie files can be found in the default system directory, which is one of the following: C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32, C:\Winnt\System32.

Other programs to remove Winupie:

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• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 19/03/04
Information updated: 24/09/05

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