Help with adware threat?

[this is the FIFTH attempt to post this msg here !!!]

The website at Pest Patrol did a scan on my Win98SE and found
"multidial" threat

I can't find much about it

After downloading ad-aware and spybot, both of them never found it.

So what is it? Is it bad?

How do I get rid of it?

- Robert -

Some scanners can give false positive results.

A dialler is a program that attempts to dial-up a premium-rate number when
you are online, but it has to log off from the web and redial the
premium-rate number, which Windows doesn't allow unless you OK it first. A
message will come up asking if you want to log off and redial. You just have
to refuse the request. If you say OK, Windows logs off and dials the
premium-rate number. It can't access such a number while you are logged on to
your ISP, it has to redial.

If you don't get a request to redial, you don't have a dialler installed.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

"Robert A. Macy" wrote:

[this is the FIFTH attempt to post this msg here !!!]

The website at Pest Patrol did a scan on my Win98SE and found
"multidial" threat

I can't find much about it

After downloading ad-aware and spybot, both of them never found it.

So what is it? Is it bad?

How do I get rid of it?

- Robert -

Eric,

Thank you for your prompt reply with a complete description.

Indeed have never gotten such a request while online.

However,...Have gotten "Dial up" Windows at inappropriate times when
not online, as the computer was trying to connect to the internet.
I've always declined the request, but don't know what is initiating the
requrest. And the dial up request is the normal number of our ISP.

- Robert -

Four of your posts made it here. [Tip: Use the MS newsserver
(news://msnews.microsoft.com) to post to this newsgroup instead of Google
Groups. No subscriptions/passwords and posts appear within seconds.]

Checking for/Help with Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=5878
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_R...:_Introduction
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/prevention.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archive/tshoot.html
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware

When all else fails, HijackThis v1.99.1
(http://aumha.net/downloads/hijackthis.zip) is the preferred tool to use.
It will help you to both identify and remove any hijackware/spyware. **Post
your log to http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html,
http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7,
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30, or other appropriate forums for expert
analysis, not here.**

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Robert A. Macy wrote:
[this is the FIFTH attempt to post this msg here !!!]

The website at Pest Patrol did a scan on my Win98SE and found
"multidial" threat

I can't find much about it

After downloading ad-aware and spybot, both of them never found it.

So what is it? Is it bad?

How do I get rid of it?

- Robert -

Correction: All five of your posts are found here.
http://snipurl.com/lfgp

Robert A. Macy wrote:
[this is the FIFTH attempt to post this msg here !!!]

The website at Pest Patrol did a scan on my Win98SE and found
"multidial" threat

I can't find much about it

After downloading ad-aware and spybot, both of them never found it.

So what is it? Is it bad?

How do I get rid of it?

- Robert -

absolutely none showed using google's connection.

- Robert -

Which is why I wrote:

...[Tip: Use the MS newsserver
(news://msnews.microsoft.com) to post to this newsgroup instead of Google
Groups. No subscriptions/passwords and posts appear within seconds.]
--
~PA Bear


Robert A. Macy wrote:
absolutely none showed using google's connection.

- Robert -

does that technique munge your return email address like google does?

- Robert -

No, but you can munge it yourself.

Robert A. Macy wrote:
does that technique munge your return email address like google does?

- Robert -

how?