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| Thread ID: 53723 | 2005-01-25 10:58:00 | Is This A Dialer? | grunta (6843) | Press F1 |
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| 317932 | 2005-01-25 10:58:00 | Hi, when i am brosing the net. occasionally at random times starting today, my pc has been disconnected. and a new dial up connection is created from no where and it tries to connect. it calls itself t9q5kf and strangly it is set for dialing 0. i just pull the modem out from the wall and wait for the dial up connection to stop trying to connect. and it just disappears on its own. i have tried spybot and adawear and they both found nothing. does anyone have any ideas?? |
grunta (6843) | ||
| 317933 | 2005-01-25 12:05:00 | I'd suspect it was a dialer, got any more info than "t9q5kf" what's in you Dialup Connection Settings, have a look in Add/Remove Programs for strange critters. Is Spybot and Adaware the latest upto date versions, are you using Spybot in Advanced mode? Have you done an antivirus scan, tried a trojan or backdoor cleaner? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 317934 | 2005-01-25 12:11:00 | If your running 95, 98 or me look in dialup networking and see if there is a foreign/ shonky dialup connection there. You'll probably have a default connection or connection to whatever isp you have in there but check the properties and see where its dialling up to. In 2000/xp look in network connections. Have you the latest adaware and spybot definitions ? A quick google search brought up nothing on t9q5kf. |
the highlander (245) | ||
| 317935 | 2005-01-25 19:13:00 | I've come across a similiar thing, NOT in a dialup BUT under msconfig under the win.ini tab in XP. (under the Winfax entry). Sometimes, some foreign characters come up from somewhere, (I would say from a site), like what Grunta has said. I know its not meant to be there, (coz it definitely isnt related to anything, on the hdd, and it wasnt there last time)! I also noticed when I DID pick it up (whatever it was), the hdd light went flat-tack, as if something was writing to the hdd (even tho I was doing nothing at the time)! All I did was either go back to win.ini and untick the entry or run sysedit and delete the entry completely. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 317936 | 2005-01-25 21:59:00 | I have looked in msconfig and the entry you had was not there, spybot keeps finding this DSO Exploit and it keeps coming back. what is a good trojan or backdoor cleaner |
grunta (6843) | ||
| 317937 | 2005-01-25 22:08:00 | i suggest you update spybot s&d,adaware and your virus scanner, if you dont have a virus scanner i suggest AVG(its free). i removed a dialer from a friends computer last week with spybot s&d got rid of it |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 317938 | 2005-01-25 22:10:00 | Ok, I have all of those programs and they say they are all up to date | grunta (6843) | ||
| 317939 | 2005-01-25 22:15:00 | is there anything nasty installed in the add/remove window in the controll panel? if there is, uninstall them, spybot _should_ get all the diallers, have you clicked the update button in it? |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 317940 | 2005-01-25 22:16:00 | yea it says that it is uptodate, i was just wondering if maybe something is stopping it eg the dialer. i dont know if it can do that, but it is just a guess | grunta (6843) | ||
| 317941 | 2005-01-25 23:49:00 | If you keep getting a dso exploit showing up in spybot you may be running an older version This was fixed in the latest version (I think) Try downloading the newest version of spybot |
the highlander (245) | ||
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