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dialup virus?
Name: allan Date: March 19, 2004 at 06:29:18 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: 128
Comment:
Help Please
my computer has ben hijacked by a dialer that keeps phoning a number that I cant identify. I have eliminated it several times from Dial up Network but it keeps coming up as New Dialup Connection and phoning out
Any suggestions would be very helpful as I cant leave my computer connected to the phone anymore Many thanks Allan
Name: Mark Long Date: March 19, 2004 at 06:38:19 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried running AdAware 6 and Spybot Search & Destroy? if not download these software titles (Free) update and run them, this hopefully will rectify your problem.
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Response Number 2
Name: dexter Date: March 19, 2004 at 06:38:55 Pacific
Reply:
Try running a Spyware program like AdAware, Spybot, or HijackThis..also update your antivirus and run a scan
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Response Number 3
Name: allan Date: March 19, 2004 at 09:45:54 Pacific
Reply:
Have tried these and they dont seem to be able to find the problem.!!
Any other suggestions? Would a hijack log help anyone with finding the problem?? Thanks Allan
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Response Number 4
Name: peakinghard Date: March 19, 2004 at 12:01:31 Pacific
Reply:
You can manually remove this dialer. Firstly using a process monitor like winpatrol, you can find the dialer running in the background. Note the file name then kill the process. Open up regedit (click start, go to run and type regedit, then hit ok) Do a search for this file name and remove any found entries. Finally delete the file from your hard drive. You can get the tools i mentioned in the freeware section of the software downloads at http://www.anti-trojan.org
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Response Number 5
Name: allan Date: March 20, 2004 at 07:08:17 Pacific
Reply:
many thanks I eventually found the problem with Winpatrol which was a very useful way of understanding what is going on.
After this I braved the registry edit function and removed the file
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