Spyware Information: Dialer-Switchdialer
This application is a telephone dialer. It can use your modem to make a telephone call. While some dialers are beneficial (they are supplied by your Internet Service Provider to allow Internet access), others will try to make toll telephone calls and possibly place '911' emergency calls without your permission.
- Size: 96,788 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 2,325 this month: 2
- Author: Unknown
- Appeared: 6/1/2005
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- Method of infection: Dialer-Switchdialer can be installed via drive-by download.
- Privacy policy: None available.
- Security issues: Dialer-Switchdialer configures your modem to make phone calls to high-rate numbers, usually pornographic in nature.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,651
- Detections this Month: 798
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