Re: Rogue diallers

"Ayrhead" <Ayrhead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your response, but what's a DUN modem, please? I'm using a BT
Voyager 210 ADSL Router. Does this make a difference?

Putting things even more simply:

If you have a modem socket on your system or any device attached to your
system, and you plug the phone network into that socket at any time, then
you need to be concerned about the financial damage that a rogue dialer will
do by dialing long-distance numbers.

Of course, a rogue dialer is only one thing that a piece of malware could
be - the rogue dialer could also come with a network sniffer that captures
credit card numbers, passwords, etc, and sends those back to the author of
the malware.

So, whether you have a phone line or not, yes, you should be concerned about
rogue dialers, because they are software that you didn't choose to run, and
they do things that you don't want them to do.

Alun.
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