Getting Rid Of Porn Diallers

the Guru · 24-10-2003 11:58am #1

I have a Dialler on a system Im working on at the moment But I cant find it anywhere and I dont whats its called in the Registery

What is the Best way of getting rid of the dialler

also I have ran Norton and it has not detected it

ando · 24-10-2003 12:22pm

Download Spybot Search and Destroy:

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10194058.html?tag=lst-0-1

Once installed, update it and then do a search for spywere, then 'fix selected problems'. This program is excellent for getting rid of spywere and you'll be supprised just how much crap is on a typical machine

Its free btw

the Guru · 24-10-2003 1:35pm

Cheers ando I will try it out later

mneylon · 24-10-2003 2:03pm

You could also try Ad-aware from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

I usually find that if one of them doesn't find it then the other one will

skywalker_208 · 25-10-2003 8:34pm

while you are at it install zonealarm personal firewall... good at stopping these things getting in in the first place!

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

vibe666 · 28-10-2003 10:02am

Assuming you are of a fairly techy nature it's usually easy enough to find them with a program called regcleaner (www.regcleaner.com). just look for the suspicious entry and delete as appropriate. (Making sure you do a full backup of the registry first of course, and you know for syure what it is.;)).

Most diallers these days have a registry entry that will restore anything you delete (DUN entries, bookmarks, desktop icons) from a hidden folder every time you reboot, making it hard to get rid of them.

as has already been said, spybot, ad-aware and most recently Norton AV 2004 will all search out and remove these registry entries and their accociated files.

Getting Rid Of Porn Diallers

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