Premium Rate Dialler - Anyone heard of it?

[MeGustaXL]

Hi All,

Friend of mine (no - really!) was talking about a nasty infection that dials a Premium Rate number via your modem, running up 100's of £'s worth of calls which your phone provider insist you pay for.

Anyone heard of such a beast?

Chris

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[2ffat]

There are several I know about. Most deal with XXX sites. I can't think of their name right now though.


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[diogenes10]

If the question is getting it off the system, hijackthis or bazooka would probably help to spot and remove the processes involved.

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[tazuk]

If it's an infection you're trying to deal with, it may be worth running a search for hol*.exe files (icon shows a web page). Cleaned one off a friend's pc the other day that had arrived via Troj/Dloader-BB (see

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderbb.html)

- the first 3 / 4 virus scans failed to find it however a combination of bitdefender's online scan (

http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php?tab=0)

and Ad-Aware v1.04 caught it (

http://www.lavasoftusa.com).

HTH


TazUk

Blue-screening PCs since 1998

 

[ttterk]

And while you're trying to find/eradicate it, acquiring and loading a third-party firewall to prevent unknown programs from accessing the web would be a good idea. I've been happy with Sygate's free version myself, as it stopped an annoying auto-dialer and even helped me figure out what was trying to get out.

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[MeGustaXL]

Thanks All,

Not a problem at present, but someone, somewhere will get infected by this, I'm sure! 4-Warned = 4-Armed





Chris

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