malicious code. please help, urgent :(

From: Nicole (me_at_nicoleanne.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:16:42 -0800

No problem. You have what's called a dialer. It's a
form of spyware and can be quite malicious. The best
program I would think of to remove it would be Ad-aware.
(free) You can get this program from
http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?
part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button
Download, install, and run. Dialer should be gone but
I'd follow up that scan with a free scan at
http://housecall.trendmicro.com
Good Luck!

>-----Original Message-----
>it seems as if my dial-up connections has been invaded
by
>a malicious code. Here is what happens:
>
>every once in a while, the default connection is
attacked
>and the "phone number" setting is changed into a new set
>of weird numbers and a new usernames and passwords are
>created for that new dialup number. meanwhile, a new
dial-
>up connection with the name "Old_Default" is created,
but
>it does not work.
>
>I have tried deleting the old connections and creating
>new default connections, but the bug simply reattacks
new
>connections that has been set up. I've tried virus and
>spyware scan, and both turned up nothing. I've also
tried
>re-upgrading windows xp and it did not work.
>Any ideas? please help, its quite urgent. thank you
>.
>