Re: Rogue Diallers

I run Spybot and Virus Check regularly
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"Colin Wilson" <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> IANAL
>
> Can`t help with the bill situation, but have you now locked down the
> PC so it can`t happen again ? (or at least, minimise the chances)
>
> I try to offer some basic tips on securing PCs on my site - whether it
> would be of any interest to you, I don`t know...
>
> http://www.coreutilities.co.uk
>
> First off, I would strongly recommend running Sysclean from Trend -
> its a one-off virus checker that uses their latest signature files as
> found for their fully paid up product. Then move on to Spybot S&D,
> SpywareBlaster, and it may well be worth checking if you have any
> strange recurring entries in your startup (which can happen, as the
> trojanised files often download the latest variants that are not yet
> detected by anything) - best checked with HijackThis over several
> reboots once you`ve deleted anything suspicious.
>
> http://www.hijackthis.de has a text field you can paste the results in
> to to help you figure out what may be worthy of more investigation -
> take the results with a pinch of salt though, as it doesn`t know about
> every program that may be installed - i.e. use a little common sense
> and google for anything you don`t recognise
>
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