Phonebills from Dialers

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I have had a couple of dialers on here and I have managed to get rid of them. However this past one I didn't discover until it did some real damage to my pocketbook. I got my phone bill today and one dialer (or maybe two) made phone calls adding up to over $150.00. One dialer made a call to Austria and the other made 9 calls to I think to a Satellite - 881 was the area code. My question is has this ever happened to any one else and did your phone company make you pay the bill. I live in Canada so laws might be different here. Are there specific pre-cautions to take incase a dialer gets on my computer again. I have tons of programs like spybot etc to find them, but I mean steps to take so that they can not dial out at all, before I manage to find them.

SpywareShooter

In my recent update of Spyware Shooter I have made a great attempt at blocking dialers, mainly after infecting myself with one (bundled with another piece of spyware which I purposely installed to do research on) and didn't realize it for a few hours. If you are looking for protection against dialers and spyware you can download my free software at www.spywareshooter.com.

A few relatives of mine have had dialers before, and when they got their phone bills they called the phone company and the phone company removed the dialer-created calls, which added up to over $600. I'd reccomend giving your phone service provider a call.

If you need help removing a dialer from your system please download HijackThis (it can be downloaded in the "Downloads" section of short-media.com if you don't have it already) and post a log.

pointsaddict

Thanks for replying . I did call my phone company and they were willing to take the phone calls off my bill. They will only do this one time, and they they say that I am responsible to secure my computer against future attacks . I downloaded spyware shooter .

SpywareShooter

Okay, thank you for downloading my software, and that's great that the phone company covered it. If you need it removed please post your HijackThis log. If not, tell me and I will close this topic.