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| 231094 | 2004-04-22 05:11:00 | My girlfriend recently recieved a phone bill with a mysterious $20 phone call to the Cook Islands. She rang telecom and they said it was dialed from a modem. So I'm thinking a dialer. They (telecom) said that the only way to stop it was to get a toll bar put on their phone (at $5 per month) or format the hard drive! She currently does not have any antivirus, firewall, or adware scanning software. Can anyone suggest the best course of action? Any help would be appreciated. |
promethius (1998) | ||
| 231095 | 2004-04-22 05:13:00 | Install free antivirus and firewall programs on her computer (eg. AVG Antivirus, Zonealarm Firewall - there are also many others). Scan her computer using Adaware and Spybot to try and remove the dialer. | somebody (208) | ||
| 231096 | 2004-04-22 05:17:00 | I thought that too, but is going on the internet risking it dialing again? | promethius (1998) | ||
| 231097 | 2004-04-22 05:33:00 | once she is on the net it can't dail up unless it stops the existing connection in which case she will notice and be able to stop it. it also would be a good idea to set the dailup to manual eg no automatic dailup. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 231098 | 2004-04-22 05:39:00 | look under network connections,the dialler will be in there beside the reguler isp connection. delete it,then fire up the connection to the isp and download spybot |
metla (154) | ||
| 231099 | 2004-04-22 05:40:00 | And telecom should be shot. | metla (154) | ||
| 231100 | 2004-04-22 05:50:00 | > And telecom should be shot. because some scum on the internet is preying on unwitting surfers by installing diallers or maybe people that sell computers (do u know of anyone?) should be shot because they sell computers and they should set up their customers computers so that they dont get these dialers |
sam m (517) | ||
| 231101 | 2004-04-22 05:51:00 | Some dialers can be installed but they do not show in Network Connections. Some are also very difficult to remove completely, if you know the name of the dialer try doing a Search/Files for it and delete any files that show any reference to that name. One particularly difficult one to remove is hot_nz |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 231102 | 2004-04-22 05:57:00 | Sam m Because there advice was to either pay for an unneeded service or reformat the drive,Bad and unwarrented advice in the least and perhaps even scare tactics for revenue at the other end of the scale. Either way they had no right giving that advice. >maybe people that sell computers (do u know of anyone?) should be shot because they sell computers and they should set up their customers computers so that they dont get these dialers Excuse me? Are you infering something here? How about you back that up or shove it? |
metla (154) | ||
| 231103 | 2004-04-22 06:01:00 | > Sam m > > Because there advice was to either pay for an > unneeded service or reformat the drive,Bad and > unwarrented advice in the least and perhaps even > scare tactics for revenue at the other end of the > scale. > > Either way they had no right giving that advice. > > > maybe people that sell computers (do u know of > anyone?) should be shot because they sell computers > and they should set up their customers computers so > that they dont get these dialers > > Excuse me? > > Are you infering something here? > > How about you back that up or shove it? Just as cars have seatbelts and there are warnings about the use of these in a car then maybe those in the computer industry should also have similar warnings about the dangers/pitfalls of the internet......... it is in your best interest = an informed customer is a satisfied customer. |
sam m (517) | ||
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