Dialer.SwitchDialer

Behavior

Dialer.SwitchDialer is a dialer program that can be used to access various material by dialing high-cost numbers using a modem. Most of the accessible material is pornographic.

Symptoms

Your Symantec antivirus program detects this threat as Dialer.SwitchDialer.

Transmission

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

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version December 29, 2003
• Latest Rapid Release version June 14, 2008 revision 017
• Initial Daily Certified version December 29, 2003
• Latest Daily Certified version July 24, 2008 revision 024
• Initial Weekly Certified release date December 31, 2003

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