Spyware Information: Dialer-Saristar
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: 6,144 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 58 this month: 0
- Author: Unknown
- Appeared: 5/26/2005
Research
- Method of infection: Dialer-Saristar can be installed via drive-by download, typically from pornography sites.
- Privacy policy: None found.
- Security issues: Dialer-Saristar will connect to pornographic high-rate phone lines.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,657
- Detections this Month: 804
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