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Help! my computer keeps dialling porn numbers!!

moviemadness (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 20th July 2004, 02:25

i think i might have some sort of virus or spyware as my pc dials up an adult porn premium number by remote connection, this is scary when i am on dial up, e.g i left my pc on whilst i went to make a cup of tea, when i came back it was connected to a premum rate number!!, i only noticed this by a small logo in the bottom right corner, i quickly pulled out the modem cable and deleted the adult dial up connection, good job i saw it and it had only been dialled on that number for under a minute it was £1.50 per minute, how do i get rid of this nuisence, i cant even leave the computer on anymore to download tunes!

RE: Help! my computer keeps dialling porn numbers!!

admars (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 20th July 2004, 06:37

if you download adaware from www.lavasoft.de/
free version should do the trick.

You also may want to give Spybot Search and Destroy, from www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html a go.

I use both `cos sometimes 1 will miss things the other will get.

I`m assuming you can still use your regular ISP to dial up to download them?

Al

RE: Help! my computer keeps dialling porn numbers!!

Wad (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 20th July 2004, 09:37

Get BT or whoever you get your phone from to block premium rate lines, might save you a small fortune.

Get latest virus definitions too and do a full scan, may find something.

Any other odd things going on - your browser home page changed or anything ? Does the dialer have a name you can see ?

RE: Help! my computer keeps dialling porn numbers!!

moviemadness (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 20th July 2004, 09:48

yes my home page keeps changing, the system has been very slow lately, and the dialler is called hotsex, when i looked in programs menu, there it was so i deleted it, then it appears again after a couple of days,i even deleted it from add and remove programs menu but it still returns!! i already have adware 6 and spybot installed but these are not responding, everytime i click on them they appear and then disapear in 1 second??? i have reinstalled them, its as though what ever this thing is it is somehow preventing spybot and adware 6 from working

This item was edited on Tuesday, 20th July 2004, 11:37

RE: Help! my computer keeps dialling porn numbers!!

MADTheOgster (Elite Donator) posted this on Tuesday, 20th July 2004, 11:51

also google for CWSHREDDER this should clean up the registry etc, it`s only a tiny program so if you can`t find it pm me and i`ll email to you :)

general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.uk

RE: Help! my computer keeps dialling porn numbers!!

moviemadness (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 20th July 2004, 13:29

i cant open cwsshreddr it comes up with a message saying it is not on my computer??? can you send it my way to

6791_sg[at]moc.liamtoh

RE: Help! my computer keeps dialling porn numbers!!

MADTheOgster (Elite Donator) posted this on Wednesday, 21st July 2004, 15:33

done :)

general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.uk

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