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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'srepparttar 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 hijackrepparttar 118670 computer's modem and then uses it to dial-up a premium rate telephone number, racking up huge telephone charges. Many Dialers operate whilstrepparttar 118671 victim is actively surfingrepparttar 118672 Net by droppingrepparttar 118673 current connection and then performing an automatic reconnection via a premium rate number. Most scary of all arerepparttar 118674 Dialers which connect themselves to a premium rate number whilerepparttar 118675 victim is away from their machine, achieving this by detecting long periods of inactivity.

Most "infections" of Rogue Dialers are contracted byrepparttar 118676 "drive-by download" method, where-byrepparttar 118677 dialer software is automatically downloaded from a webpage withoutrepparttar 118678 victim ever being aware. This method of installing software onto a users PC was pioneered byrepparttar 118679 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 asrepparttar 118680 Electronic Pox; a riskrepparttar 118681 end-user took when visiting adult websites. Of course, just likerepparttar 118682 first pop-up box, also developed byrepparttar 118683 adult industry,repparttar 118684 rest ofrepparttar 118685 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 justrepparttar 118686 next generation of electronic misery which can be inflicted uponrepparttar 118687 end-user. Unfortunately for any victims, Rogue Dialers hitrepparttar 118688 pocket and they hit it hard!

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