Dialer.Adultchat

Behavior

Dialer.Adultchat is a dialer program that can be used to access pornography, by dialling a high-cost telephone number using a modem.

Symptoms

Your Symantec program detects Dialer.Adultchat.

• The modem unexpectedly dials long-distance phone numbers.
  
  

Transmission

The most common installation method of this dialer application is through various Web sites that are mainly pornographic in nature.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version October 9, 2003
• Latest Rapid Release version February 22, 2009 revision 025
• Initial Daily Certified version October 9, 2003 revision 003
• Latest Daily Certified version February 23, 2009 revision 021
• Initial Weekly Certified release date October 15, 2003

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