Virus (Dialer...something)

[beavereater]

Thanks to a certain member on here, I'm addicted to ogame.org. Anyway, every now and then I get a dialer type thing popping up on my Norton. Sometimes it lets me delete it, sometimes it says I can't. When I can't I close everything, restart in safemode, turn off system restore and run a full scan. Nothing comes up...what's up with this? Is Norton deleting it anyway?

[hech54]

It's hard to say.
Some viruses, trojans etc etc are designed to diable the AV program on the computer.
This is a great place to visit:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
If the trojan/virus/infection allows it that is....they are
pretty sneaky. There must be something nasty floating around again because my Norton updated the anti-worm twice in one week.

[jimmalenko]

When I can't I close everything, restart in safemode, turn off system restore and run a full scan. Nothing comes up...what's up with this? Is Norton deleting it anyway?

A lot of AV programs quarantine suspect items into a "virus vault", and my thoughts are that it possibly empties this on next boot.

[The1]

Try spybot search and destroy that might get rid of it

[Faustus]

Its likely in your cache. Try to clear your browser cache. Also make sure your not using Internet Exploiter.

[beavereater]

Its likely in your cache. Try to clear your browser cache. Also make sure your not using Internet Exploiter.

Cool...and thanks for getting me addicted to this mofo!!

[Faustus]

No problem. I'm only playing in Uni12 these days. Things in 8 got a little to agressive for my liking.

[Bjs]

Norton's is over rated , considering I used to use the pro edition .

Avg antivirus not only beats norton's , but will remove them should they end up in the restore point's .

Apart from hiding in the internet's cache folder , and temp , check your program file's folder as well .

Some dialer's have been known to have there own install folder's , and the odd one or two can end up in the windows folder as well .

Next time , go to start , type the word Msconfig , click ok ... go to startup tab .

Look carefully at everything that is set to startup with the pc .

If anything look's suspicious , uncheck it , hit apply , then ok , and pc restart's .

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If after all that , it work's , then you should remove the line from that startup area .

Go to start , run , type the word Regedit ... here you will see about 5 main groups to the left in a two paned window for regedit .

Forget the first item and last item ... so 3 remain .

Do this for each item , one at a time ..

Click on the plus on first main item .
Click the plus on software .
Click the plus on microsoft .
Click the plus on windows .
Click the plus on Current version .

Now go down to those Run's

Check them out for that line that appeared in the msconfig startup group .

Left click item to highlight it , the right click and choose delete .

Repeat this for each main group

The main group's that should be checked and this applied to are :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS

Watch this last one , it has several group's in it , and you need to check them all for than line in the Run section's .

Once done , close regedit , and it should nolonger bother you .

[isogonic]

if all that fails do a online scan or two:

BitDefender Free Online Virus Scan
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
check AutoClean under Scan Options.

Panda ActiveScan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=%2fact...ACHEHINT=Guest

Kaspersky virus scanner
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

Housecall at TrendMicro
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
check Auto Clean.

F-Secure virus scanner
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml

eTrust Antivirus Web Scanner
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx