Name: IEAccess Category: Dialer Alias: eGroup Advice: Remove Risk: Severe Risk Severe threats typically are remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, which can lead to system compromise. Successful exploitation does not normally require any interaction and exploits are in the wild. There exists a high possibility of potential system damage or security flaw. Attacker has complete control over your computer or install new software on your machine. Description: IEAccess is an ActiveX Trojan control used to download and install premium-rate dialers, primarily for porn sites. On a user’s computer. IEAccess can be installed without the user’s knowledge via an Internet Explorer Security Hole. IEAccess is installed by ActiveX drive-by-download by porn-related pages from nocreditcard.net and sex-explorer.com. These pages may be redirected to or opened by pop-up advertising. IEAccess may be installed automatically, without prompting, on Internet Explorer versions earlier than IE6 Service Pack 1, due to a security hole. The installer pages exploit this to run an executable file which adds 'Electronic Group' to the list of trusted publishers whose software IE will install automatically without asking. Electronic Group are also known to distribute at least two other types of stealth-installed dialer, StripPlayer and DialerOffline. It has the many variants: IEAccess/IEDial , IEAccess/HTMLAccess , IEAccess/HTMLDialer are broadly similar but use different filenames and IDs; IEAccess/EGDial is based on IEAccess/HTMLDialer Type: Dialer - Spyware's primary purpose is to collect demographic and usage information from your computer, usually for advertising purposes. Spyware usually that 'sneaks' onto a system or performs other activities hidden to the user. Spyware programs are usually bundled as a hidden component and downloaded from the Internet. These modules are almost always installed on the system secretively and try to run secretively as well.