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| | Rogue Dialers - The Nets Latest Scamola!Written by Robert Palmer
If recent news stories concerning worms, trojans and security exploits within Microsoft's Internet Explorer, left you feeling vulnerable, this will leave you terrified. PC's world over are already being hit by a new breed of trojan type software called Rogue Dialers. More malevolent than most ordinary spyware, Rogue Dialers actually hijack computer's modem and then uses it to dial-up a premium rate telephone number, racking up huge telephone charges. Many Dialers operate whilst victim is actively surfing Net by dropping current connection and then performing an automatic reconnection via a premium rate number. Most scary of all are Dialers which connect themselves to a premium rate number while victim is away from their machine, achieving this by detecting long periods of inactivity.Most "infections" of Rogue Dialers are contracted by "drive-by download" method, where-by dialer software is automatically downloaded from a webpage without victim ever being aware. This method of installing software onto a users PC was pioneered by online adult services industry as a way of putting spy and adware programs onto a customers PC without them knowing. Originally confined to adult websites, drive-by downloads of spyware used to be known as Electronic Pox; a risk end-user took when visiting adult websites. Of course, just like first pop-up box, also developed by adult industry, rest of Internet was soon to follow. Thanks to a glaringly obvious design flaw in Microsoft's Outlook Express, which allows emails, including those containing HTML and embedded malevolent code, to be previewed without any warning, Rogue Dialers can be placed onto a victims PC without them ever going near a website. Rogue Dialers are just next generation of electronic misery which can be inflicted upon end-user. Unfortunately for any victims, Rogue Dialers hit pocket and they hit it hard!
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