Three days noe on the connection icon there is a red X and someone told it is a dialler that charges me with long distance calls.I did scan disc and ran avast,found 6infected files form Adware and deleted them but the X is still here!Anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
2007-02-21 11:16:32 · 8 answers · asked by Erina♣Liszt's Girl 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Boot into Safe Mode with Networking and run....
You can run a free online scan from CA.
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Download HijackThis---http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php#hijackthis. Run and Save a Log. When you log comes up copy and paste the entire log at http://www.hijackthis.de/ . Analyze your results. You will then get a screen that will tell you if you have any nasty stuff in your computer. Follow instructions to deal with any nasties. CAUTION: This is a very powerful tool. Be careful.
2007-02-21 11:22:21 · answer #1 · answered by rlh242424 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
OMG....I've had one of these before. There called 'ROUGE DIALLER'S! They run up telephone bills in the hundreds! When we received are telephone bill, we had calls to Austria....costing £24 and there weren't just one there were about 4! So we rang up the telephone company and they said there's nothing they can do because we cant prove it wasn't us.
The only thing to do is to prevent it from happening in the first place.....Anti-Virus and all that protection stuff!
Hope this helps!
2007-02-21 11:23:59 · answer #2 · answered by JDW16 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup , i've experienced this before, but caught it with my avast before it could dial anything. If you removed the infected files i don't know why an icon is still listing, you may have to use the "Remove icons from desktop" featture, and after that make sure you delete it completely.
2007-02-21 11:26:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-24 22:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best thing is to stay off the net untill its sorted.
Try download AVG free from download.com:
http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10596553.html?tag=lst-0-1
Then download Ad Aware also from download.com:
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10639408.html?tag=lst-0-1
Update both and scan, also, try scan in safe mode.
To get in to safe mode, restart your pc and start pressing F8 a few times.
Also try call the company you are with that provide your phone service and tell them to bar all premium / international or any high rate charging phone calls.
Good luck.
One more thing, if you dont have a firewall, get Zone alarm, you can get that free too from download.com
2007-02-21 11:28:02 · answer #5 · answered by Vulture 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If what you describe is a red cross over what looks like two computer screens then don't worry all as it means is a network card is enabled but no network is available but if you're worried about spy-ware then get AVG anti spy-ware it's free you can get it here http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5 it catches most nastiess and more than some.
2007-02-21 11:29:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
slide your mouse over the red X, if it says network cable is unplugged then someone is having you on. Its simply because you have connected via a server ie. your internet service provider. No need to worry.
2007-02-21 11:23:45 · answer #7 · answered by darandsu 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
don't usually get them on broadband.........yet !!
i'm sure it's just the disconnected network icon you are seeing so don't panic.
also.....
why not contact your phone provider and put call barring on premium/international rate calls anyway just to be safe from any future problems?
2007-02-21 14:52:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋