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dialer program accidentally installed
The quotes on several of my aol profiles keep being
replaced with a porn link. Sometimes the porn page pops up and covers my whole screen. When this happens Microsoft Internet Explorer is in the top left corner and a "X" is in the top right. AOL tech help said i had a dialer program installed on my computer that may have come in during a chat by instant messages. Will some one please tell me how to remove this and how to prevent it in the future? I have tried Norton, Spybot, and Ad-aware Ralph McRae |
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dialer program accidentally installed
On Fri, 21 May 2004 11:26:42 -0700, "Ralph McRae" *email_address_deleted*
wrote: The quotes on several of my aol profiles keep being replaced with a porn link. Sometimes the porn page pops up and covers my whole screen. When this happens Microsoft Internet Explorer is in the top left corner and a "X" is in the top right. AOL tech help said i had a dialer program installed on my computer that may have come in during a chat by instant messages. Will some one please tell me how to remove this and how to prevent it in the future? I have tried Norton, Spybot, and Ad-aware Ralph McRae Ralph, Try these free online virus scans, to complement Norton: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php http://www.pandasoftware.com/actives..._principal.htm http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional carriers of infection. Have you downloaded these programs before? Download them again, as many are revised frequently, to keep up with the current level of malware being attempted constantly - get the absolutely most current version of each product listed. They're all free - and most pretty small, so they download quickly enough. First, download LSP-Fix and WinsockXPFIx from http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm, and CWShredder from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html. All are free. Next, close all Internet Explorer and Outlook windows, then run CWShredder. Have it fix all variants. Now check for, and remove, spyware. Get HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 and Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download. Both free. 1) Install and run Spybot. First update it ("Search for updates"), then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and make all recommended deletions. 2) Install and run HijackThis. Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. 3) Have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following forums (and post it here): http://forums.net-integration.net/ http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/ http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix and / or WinsockXPFIx. Finally, improve your chances for the future. Harden your browser. There are various websites which will check for vulnerabilities, here are three which I use. http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/BrowserSecurity/ http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/ https://testzone.secunia.com/browser_checker/ Harden your operating system. Check at least monthly for security updates. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ Block possibly dangerous websites with a Hosts file. Three Hosts file sources I use: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm (The third is included, and updated, with Spybot (see above)). Maintain your Hosts file with: eDexter http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html Hostess http://accs-net.com/hostess/ Secure your operating system, and applications. Don't use, or leave activated, any accounts with names or passwords with trivial (guessable) values. Don't use an account with administrative authority, except when you're intentionally doing administrative tasks. Use common sense. Yours. Don't install software based upon advice from unknown sources. Don't install free software, without researching it carefully. Don't open email unless you know who it's from, and how and why it was sent. Educate yourself. Know what the risks are. Stay informed. Read Usenet, and various web pages that discuss security problems. Check the logs from the other layers regularly, look for things that don't belong, and take action when necessary. And Ralph, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - never post your address unmunged. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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dialer program accidentally installed
On Fri, 21 May 2004 11:26:42 -0700, "Ralph McRae" *email_address_deleted*
wrote: The quotes on several of my aol profiles keep being replaced with a porn link. Sometimes the porn page pops up and covers my whole screen. When this happens Microsoft Internet Explorer is in the top left corner and a "X" is in the top right. AOL tech help said i had a dialer program installed on my computer that may have come in during a chat by instant messages. Will some one please tell me how to remove this and how to prevent it in the future? I have tried Norton, Spybot, and Ad-aware Ralph McRae Ralph, Try these free online virus scans, to complement Norton: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php http://www.pandasoftware.com/actives..._principal.htm http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional carriers of infection. Have you downloaded these programs before? Download them again, as many are revised frequently, to keep up with the current level of malware being attempted constantly - get the absolutely most current version of each product listed. They're all free - and most pretty small, so they download quickly enough. First, download LSP-Fix and WinsockXPFIx from http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm, and CWShredder from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html. All are free. Next, close all Internet Explorer and Outlook windows, then run CWShredder. Have it fix all variants. Now check for, and remove, spyware. Get HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 and Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download. Both free. 1) Install and run Spybot. First update it ("Search for updates"), then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and make all recommended deletions. 2) Install and run HijackThis. Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. 3) Have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following forums (and post it here): http://forums.net-integration.net/ http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/ http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix and / or WinsockXPFIx. Finally, improve your chances for the future. Harden your browser. There are various websites which will check for vulnerabilities, here are three which I use. http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/BrowserSecurity/ http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/ https://testzone.secunia.com/browser_checker/ Harden your operating system. Check at least monthly for security updates. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ Block possibly dangerous websites with a Hosts file. Three Hosts file sources I use: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm (The third is included, and updated, with Spybot (see above)). Maintain your Hosts file with: eDexter http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html Hostess http://accs-net.com/hostess/ Secure your operating system, and applications. Don't use, or leave activated, any accounts with names or passwords with trivial (guessable) values. Don't use an account with administrative authority, except when you're intentionally doing administrative tasks. Use common sense. Yours. Don't install software based upon advice from unknown sources. Don't install free software, without researching it carefully. Don't open email unless you know who it's from, and how and why it was sent. Educate yourself. Know what the risks are. Stay informed. Read Usenet, and various web pages that discuss security problems. Check the logs from the other layers regularly, look for things that don't belong, and take action when necessary. And Ralph, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - never post your address unmunged. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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dialer program accidentally installed
On Fri, 21 May 2004 11:26:42 -0700, "Ralph McRae" *email_address_deleted*
wrote: The quotes on several of my aol profiles keep being replaced with a porn link. Sometimes the porn page pops up and covers my whole screen. When this happens Microsoft Internet Explorer is in the top left corner and a "X" is in the top right. AOL tech help said i had a dialer program installed on my computer that may have come in during a chat by instant messages. Will some one please tell me how to remove this and how to prevent it in the future? I have tried Norton, Spybot, and Ad-aware Ralph McRae Ralph, Try these free online virus scans, to complement Norton: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php http://www.pandasoftware.com/actives..._principal.htm http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional carriers of infection. Have you downloaded these programs before? Download them again, as many are revised frequently, to keep up with the current level of malware being attempted constantly - get the absolutely most current version of each product listed. They're all free - and most pretty small, so they download quickly enough. First, download LSP-Fix and WinsockXPFIx from http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm, and CWShredder from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html. All are free. Next, close all Internet Explorer and Outlook windows, then run CWShredder. Have it fix all variants. Now check for, and remove, spyware. Get HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 and Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download. Both free. 1) Install and run Spybot. First update it ("Search for updates"), then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and make all recommended deletions. 2) Install and run HijackThis. Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. 3) Have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following forums (and post it here): http://forums.net-integration.net/ http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/ http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix and / or WinsockXPFIx. Finally, improve your chances for the future. Harden your browser. There are various websites which will check for vulnerabilities, here are three which I use. http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/BrowserSecurity/ http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/ https://testzone.secunia.com/browser_checker/ Harden your operating system. Check at least monthly for security updates. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ Block possibly dangerous websites with a Hosts file. Three Hosts file sources I use: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm (The third is included, and updated, with Spybot (see above)). Maintain your Hosts file with: eDexter http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html Hostess http://accs-net.com/hostess/ Secure your operating system, and applications. Don't use, or leave activated, any accounts with names or passwords with trivial (guessable) values. Don't use an account with administrative authority, except when you're intentionally doing administrative tasks. Use common sense. Yours. Don't install software based upon advice from unknown sources. Don't install free software, without researching it carefully. Don't open email unless you know who it's from, and how and why it was sent. Educate yourself. Know what the risks are. Stay informed. Read Usenet, and various web pages that discuss security problems. Check the logs from the other layers regularly, look for things that don't belong, and take action when necessary. And Ralph, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - never post your address unmunged. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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dialer program accidentally installed
On Fri, 21 May 2004 11:26:42 -0700, "Ralph McRae" *email_address_deleted*
wrote: The quotes on several of my aol profiles keep being replaced with a porn link. Sometimes the porn page pops up and covers my whole screen. When this happens Microsoft Internet Explorer is in the top left corner and a "X" is in the top right. AOL tech help said i had a dialer program installed on my computer that may have come in during a chat by instant messages. Will some one please tell me how to remove this and how to prevent it in the future? I have tried Norton, Spybot, and Ad-aware Ralph McRae Ralph, Try these free online virus scans, to complement Norton: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php http://www.pandasoftware.com/actives..._principal.htm http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional carriers of infection. Have you downloaded these programs before? Download them again, as many are revised frequently, to keep up with the current level of malware being attempted constantly - get the absolutely most current version of each product listed. They're all free - and most pretty small, so they download quickly enough. First, download LSP-Fix and WinsockXPFIx from http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm, and CWShredder from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html. All are free. Next, close all Internet Explorer and Outlook windows, then run CWShredder. Have it fix all variants. Now check for, and remove, spyware. Get HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 and Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download. Both free. 1) Install and run Spybot. First update it ("Search for updates"), then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and make all recommended deletions. 2) Install and run HijackThis. Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. 3) Have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following forums (and post it here): http://forums.net-integration.net/ http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/ http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix and / or WinsockXPFIx. Finally, improve your chances for the future. Harden your browser. There are various websites which will check for vulnerabilities, here are three which I use. http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/BrowserSecurity/ http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/ https://testzone.secunia.com/browser_checker/ Harden your operating system. Check at least monthly for security updates. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ Block possibly dangerous websites with a Hosts file. Three Hosts file sources I use: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm (The third is included, and updated, with Spybot (see above)). Maintain your Hosts file with: eDexter http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html Hostess http://accs-net.com/hostess/ Secure your operating system, and applications. Don't use, or leave activated, any accounts with names or passwords with trivial (guessable) values. Don't use an account with administrative authority, except when you're intentionally doing administrative tasks. Use common sense. Yours. Don't install software based upon advice from unknown sources. Don't install free software, without researching it carefully. Don't open email unless you know who it's from, and how and why it was sent. Educate yourself. Know what the risks are. Stay informed. Read Usenet, and various web pages that discuss security problems. Check the logs from the other layers regularly, look for things that don't belong, and take action when necessary. And Ralph, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - never post your address unmunged. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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