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Old 25-03-2004, 10:33   #17
Chris W
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Re: Premium dial-up without knowledge

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Originally Posted by chambece
Unfortunatly, I know what you're saying, but I actually wonder if any of these would have helped in this instance, as the firewall will probs still let the connection be dialed, it not be recognised as a virus, an perhaps only flagged by the spyware - if it is purely a dialer, then I'd probs say there's no spyware there, certainly it'd be malware, but .....
AFAIK diallers are picked up by spybot and adaware anyway.

A paid for antivirus usually has blocking for diallers, and also some firewalls will alert you if you try to connect you to the internet with a different device.
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