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Help removing and preventing Dialers
A dialer is a software that sets up an external connection for a computer.
Usually using a modem to communicate with the phone wires.
When you are on dial-up, you need one but you want it to connect you to
your ISP(Internet Service Provider).
Malicious dialers and automated phone dialers are those who
instead using your ISP number, they
dial to an expensive number or they make even long distance calls.
This kind of dialers get into your computer usually when you visit
untrusted sites such as porn, mp3, etc. They come stealthed under other
names such as sexyscreensaver.exe or britneyspears.exe so
unexperienced
internet users could get tricked. Trojans and ActiveX is also used to
spread this kind of dialers.
Popular anti-spyware applications are usually able to get rid of these
dialers but it is very important for any user to understand what is
happening with his computer and where he dials in order to connect to
internet and never use any other numbers which can be very expensive. Some
popular autodialers are called: AsianRaw Dialer, GoIN, TIBS,
IBS.
So whenever you see that your computers dials unwanted number, you must
run your antivirus or quickly download some antispyware software.
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