crap i accidentally installed some dialer :(

kabal57 · Post by **kabal57** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:29 pm

well somehow i installed some net dialer. I dont think it was a auto dialer because when i was surfing around i found this ilttle pic in my toolbar and it had a login and connect screen pop up..
my question is, is there any damage that could have been done by this?
I did not connect it and uninstalled it right away, but im kinda worried about it.. anyone have any experience with these?
I have za pro, would it have alerted me if the thing had tried dialing out, or are they more sneaky than that?

Paft · Post by **Paft** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:36 pm

ZoneAlarm would have alerted you.

http://lavasoftusa.com/

Download Ad-Aware 6 and run it.. also run Spybot Search & Destroy if you can find it on the web. Both very good programs that will remove the **** that the uninstaller didn't.

kabal57 · Post by **kabal57** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:48 pm

well i did as you suggested and found two of the little bastards on my machine.. this install of xp is less than a week old!
is there anyway I can prevent this from happening again? I think it was from one of those stupid popup installers that you have to click to close it and it actually counts it as ok instead of go away..
know the ones im talking about?

btw, thanks for the help

_uNDeRsCoRE · Post by **_uNDeRsCoRE** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:51 pm

a porn dialer, ryt?

hehehe...

well, i'm not really certain if im totally protected with apps dat i use. but these apps really manages to protect my pc from those nasty sites:

sygate pro

spywareblaster

spyad

give it a try kabal57

kabal57 · Post by **kabal57** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 12:37 am

man that spyware blaster was exactly what i was looking for!
thanks for the link

now i can surf my pr0n sites in peace
anyone know a good proggie to ban cookies from websites that you select?
for example of i go to cnnsi.com and dont want cookies, a nice program that lets me click the dont allow cookies from this website button would be great.
kinda like the button on popup stopper that lets you add popups from certain sites

_uNDeRsCoRE · Post by **_uNDeRsCoRE** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:59 am

check these apps:

CookieJar

CookieWall

btw, there's no peace in p0rn

hehehe

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:09 pm

you can also use mozilla/phoenix/opera

that wont work with activex and blocks pop ups

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 8:16 pm

CookieWall is installed here and it gives you the option to "Prompt" when a cookie comes calling.
You just select what you want to do with the cookie as it arrives.
The ones you select for deletion won't make it to your cookie folder but they will mirror to the Temp Internet file. These are not active.
CookieJar should also give similar options but I have yet to try it. AnalogX has a good rep for these small apps.

There is a new AV program called GAV which has yet to be Beta released that has most of the dialers added to it's detection list. It's a bit early yet to play with it but on release it should be a great program.
Hope this helps.

Croc.

kabal57 · Post by **kabal57** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 1:33 am

thanks for your help guys

those freeware programs are great
cookiewall was just what iw as looking for as well
only one problem tho,
i get a error when i try running spyware blaster
im on winxp pro w 512 of pc 2700
the error is this:

runtime error 339 component mscomctl.ocx or one of its dependencies not currently registered a file is missing or invalid.
any idea what this is?

_uNDeRsCoRE · Post by **_uNDeRsCoRE** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 5:25 am

here

kabal57 · Post by **kabal57** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 6:05 am

once again, my thanks

everything working great.

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 1:41 pm

Go to the SpywareBlaster program and get the latest update.

Quite a few dialers listed with it.

Croc.