9 diallers on my PC?
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Since ZoneAlarm stopped supporting Win98SE which I have on my older Dell, I switched to AVG Pro with Firewall.
Whilst fine on the new Dell, the firewall turned itself off on the older one. AVG tech support are very fast to reply and sent me a diagnostic tool to help out.
I ran the diagnostics and sent them the results. They then told me I had 9 diallers on the PC and this was causing the firewall problem.
9 diallers? Sheesh. I was aware of diallers for Compuserve, The Free Internet and Dellnet and removed those in the accounts section of internet options (leaving just the broaband) but can not see the other diallers. Am I correct in thinking these must be "rogue" diallers which have penetrated my defences?
I ran SpyBot but it didn't find any diallers. Anyone know a way of finding them?
Cheers
Whilst fine on the new Dell, the firewall turned itself off on the older one. AVG tech support are very fast to reply and sent me a diagnostic tool to help out.
I ran the diagnostics and sent them the results. They then told me I had 9 diallers on the PC and this was causing the firewall problem.
9 diallers? Sheesh. I was aware of diallers for Compuserve, The Free Internet and Dellnet and removed those in the accounts section of internet options (leaving just the broaband) but can not see the other diallers. Am I correct in thinking these must be "rogue" diallers which have penetrated my defences?
I ran SpyBot but it didn't find any diallers. Anyone know a way of finding them?
Cheers
Edited by Tafia on Saturday 2nd September 16:15
SpyBot with latest updates (fresh download doesn't always have latest defenitions), HiJack This, AdAware, CCCleaner... should do the job. To be honest if none of this lot spot anything malicious then I'm tempted to call their bluff.
Usually dialers make themselves know, icons appearing on the desktop odd program groups appearing and such as they want you to click them (hence they often have icons of naked women and 'click here for porn' style names), so the fact they aren't being blatently obvious does make me wonder.
Do you run any VPN software? Have you made a lot of Dial-Up Networking connections?
Usually dialers make themselves know, icons appearing on the desktop odd program groups appearing and such as they want you to click them (hence they often have icons of naked women and 'click here for porn' style names), so the fact they aren't being blatently obvious does make me wonder.
Do you run any VPN software? Have you made a lot of Dial-Up Networking connections?
thepassenger said:
SpyBot with latest updates (fresh download doesn't always have latest defenitions), HiJack This, AdAware, CCCleaner... should do the job. To be honest if none of this lot spot anything malicious then I'm tempted to call their bluff.
Usually dialers make themselves know, icons appearing on the desktop odd program groups appearing and such as they want you to click them (hence they often have icons of naked women and 'click here for porn' style names), so the fact they aren't being blatently obvious does make me wonder.
Do you run any VPN software? Have you made a lot of Dial-Up Networking connections?
Usually dialers make themselves know, icons appearing on the desktop odd program groups appearing and such as they want you to click them (hence they often have icons of naked women and 'click here for porn' style names), so the fact they aren't being blatently obvious does make me wonder.
Do you run any VPN software? Have you made a lot of Dial-Up Networking connections?
No, no VPN and I have removed the 3 dial-up accounts which were legit. That leaves six unaccounted for as they are not in the list of accounts under Internet Options. AVG say their next version fixes the flaw caused by multiple accounts and they invited me to join in a beta trial for the latest edition. I am clearly not bright enough to take part so I declined
Cheers, T
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