Overview: WildTangent was founded in 1998 by Alex St. John, the
principal creator of Microsoft's DirectX multimedia platform. From the
beginning, the company's mission has been to enable the delivery of the richest
interactive content experiences online using the least amount of bandwidth. To
that end, the first version of WildTangent's technology platform, Web Driver
1.0, was released in September 1999. Since then over 50 million people have
adopted the WildTangent Web Driver? to enrich their online experience.
This is an online gaming package that is installed by a number of third party
applications and even OEMs, ISPs and AIM. The games aspect of this is really
rather cool. The being installed without you asking for it isn't cool at all.
Removal Instructions:
The packaged uninstaller actually works good enough for most of us: If not,
they supplied some good instructions
here. Here's what they say:
To remove the Web Driver, and associated software, please do the following:
- Open Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs
- Select the WildTangent Web Driver
- Click Remove
- Select the WildTangent Updater
- Click Remove
- Select the WildTangent GameChannel
- Click Remove
- Reboot
- After uninstallation, open your Windows directory, and delete the wt
folder
- Delete the c:\program Files\WildTangent directory
Please Note: If the Wildtangent Control Panel icon still appears in the
Windows Control Panel, you may need to search your computer's hard drive for any
occurance of the files "wtcpl.dll" and "wtcpl.cpl" and remove it. This
occassionally occurs when an older version of the Web driver was partially
removed.
Destroy Autorun:
Delete the following keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\WildTangent
CDA
Reboot your system then:
Make
sure you click start --> Run and type in msconfig. Then select the startup
tab. Any references to the processes below.
End Processes (may or may not exist):
aimwdi~1.exe
ddcactivemenu.exe
ddcman.exe
ddcmigrate.exe
gamechannel.exe
rungame.exe
ubgmtat.exe
wcmdmgr.exe
wcmdmgrl.exe
ref=ref="http://forum.iamnotageek.com/t-78659.html">wtbgmtt.exe
wthost.exe
wtinstaller.exe
Unregister DLLs:
Each file is in several locations so you'll need to search for them
and unregister +
delete them in every location you find. These are found in quite a few
locations so you'll have to search for them, unregister them and then delete
them everywhere you find it running.
cdaengine0400.dll
dx5drv.dll
dx7drv.dll
sound.dll
webdriver.dll
wdengine.dll
wdinuseplugin.dll
wt3d.dll
wtdmmp.dll
wtdmmpv.dll
wthostctl.dll
wtisa.dll
wtvh.dll
Remove Directories:
%program_files%\wildtangent
%windows%\wt
%profile%\local settings\application data\wildtangent
Clean your Registry:
You should
be back to normal IF this was your only problem. I suggest you post in
our HJT forum since its not likely that this is your only bug.
Read this first.
