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Re: Dialer.gzt?

Subject: Re: Dialer.gzt?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:47:39 -0400
Hi Julio,

It is not that simple. Depending on the how the dialer behaves it may actually fall into a legal gray area where lawyers have been making some good money.

That is the reason why some scanners will not detect all dialers by default. Some scanners have flags to enable detection of this type of application, some just don't do it.

Unfortunately the name of a threat is of limited value as it is specific to one product. This can be a false positive or a threat that is only detected by a limited amount of scanners for several possible reasons. Services like www.virustotal.com can provide some help in troubleshoot this, but it may also help to submit the sample to several vendors and see how they respond.

Robert Sandilands

Julio Canto wrote:
Axel Pettinger wrote:
Anyone know more about this?

http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?lst=vis&idvirus=115571
It's not a virus, it's just a dialer[1]. Some av scanners do not detect such programs.
It is malware, and should be detected by an av scanner.



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