Spyware

[Alex]

Hi,
My dial-up internet connection is being deliberately
terminated after a certain amount of time, by some
unauthorised software/spyware and dialing another number,
which happens to be a premium rate number. I have used
Adaware, Spybot 1.3 and my own cunning to try rid my
machine of this spyware, but i remove all registry keys
that spybot identifies and delete all Adaware found files,
but it is still doing it.
Is there a manual way of finding the culprit and removing
it manually from my machine.
Please help as it has already cost me £20 in unauthorised
premium rate calls.
You see the problem is it, disconnects me and dials this
new number silently. So I can miss it if i am away from my
machine.

Thanks.

 

[Drew Tognola]

Alex,
Go to 'Start' > 'Settings' > Network Connections > there should be only one
dial-up icon in your folder. Delete any others. Now go to 'Start' > Run >
type msconfig and click 'OK' > 'Startup' tab > uncheck any spyware that may
still be there. Last, 'Start' > 'Programs > 'Startup' > delete any spyware
that may still be there.
Drew

Hi,
My dial-up internet connection is being deliberately
terminated after a certain amount of time, by some
unauthorised software/spyware and dialing another number,
which happens to be a premium rate number. I have used
Adaware, Spybot 1.3 and my own cunning to try rid my
machine of this spyware, but i remove all registry keys
that spybot identifies and delete all Adaware found files,
but it is still doing it.
Is there a manual way of finding the culprit and removing
it manually from my machine.
Please help as it has already cost me £20 in unauthorised
premium rate calls.
You see the problem is it, disconnects me and dials this
new number silently. So I can miss it if i am away from my
machine.

Thanks.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try this program as well:

CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

Which ISP are you using? My daughter had the same problem with Tiscali -
but for £150!!

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Hi,
My dial-up internet connection is being deliberately
terminated after a certain amount of time, by some
unauthorised software/spyware and dialing another number,
which happens to be a premium rate number. I have used
Adaware, Spybot 1.3 and my own cunning to try rid my
machine of this spyware, but i remove all registry keys
that spybot identifies and delete all Adaware found files,
but it is still doing it.
Is there a manual way of finding the culprit and removing
it manually from my machine.
Please help as it has already cost me £20 in unauthorised
premium rate calls.
You see the problem is it, disconnects me and dials this
new number silently. So I can miss it if i am away from my
machine.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Freeserve Anytime

Its OK, but a little slow