WebDialer
Category: Cookie
Risk:
Low Risk
* Low risk threats pose a very low risk or no immediate danger to your computer or your privacy, however these types of applications may profile user online habits, but only according to specific privacy policies stated in the applications End-User License. These types of threats generally borderline on being a threat to being a standard application that has a complex license agreement that you knowingly installed.
Description: WebDialer is an is a premium Trojan adult dialer that connects to an expensive 1-900 and internation numbers. WebDialer changes the users dialup settings to use a premium number to look at porn sites. WebDialer tries to automatically install itself without the users intervention. WebDialers goal is to add a new default modem connection. This new connection will call instead of the commonly used Internet-Service-Provider a new service provider using a 0900 number with usually high phone-rates. In numerous cases, WebDialer starts up at the same time as the computer starts, automatically establishing a dial-up connection. WebDialer will stay online as long as the computer is running. As WebDialer is connecting to a 0900 telephone number they will cause high telephone costs.
Alias: None
Signatures: None Listed
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