Dialers - from the web.

[hotfusion]

A colleague of mine has had some bother with some 'dialers' he accidently allowed on to his computer. Fair to say he is rather new to modern computing, and is a little concerned about this.
Quite what sites he's been visiting is unclear........
The first suspicion that he had a problem was when he attempted to e-mail me a file. One of these programs had somehow stepped in and replaced his file with its own .exe.
I promptly contacted him to warn him of what was going on, and was able to clear no less than four different 'dialers' from his system.
Luckily, none had succeeded in phoning out on their premium-rate numbers.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this trouble, any idea how they install themselves, generally any info at all on these rather unscrupulous bits of software?
Cheers, Andy. My suggestions are what I would try myself. If incorrect, I welcome corrections to my rather limited knowledge. Andy.

 

[natmat2]

I have something similar on my computer. I have reason to believe it came with a kazaa download. I have deleted as much of it as I can, but everytime I access the internet the dialer takes over and tries to dial out. It does not succeed, but it won't allow me to use my usual internet provider.

I am no expert--I know some--but I can't figure out how to delete it for good.

Any advice?

win98

 

[DaveStL]

Go to

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

and download Ad-Aware. This usually gets rid of KaZaA.

After that, go to

http://www.gibboncore.demon.co.uk/kazaaspyware/kazaaspywarehell.htm

and follow the instructions to be sure the removal is total.

Let us know if this works.

 

[wbg34]

Make sure you get the updated reference files from lavasoft too.

 

[hnd]

On my system i have running a registry Check which reports all modifications in the registry or some files which could perform an Autostart of a software. Therefore a secret Installation of a Dialer will not work.

Nevertheless DSL users will have no Dialerproblems anyway.
hnd
hasso55@yahoo.com