Why I'm asking? Because I've got something on my PC, what appears to be a dialer, in Spanish. I have no idea where this came from, and Ad-Aware nor Spybot seem to pick it up. What's worse, I'm not even sure if it actually is a dialer. What happens, is that some form of agreement pops up for less than a second, goes away and I get an error message about not being able to make a connection (at least, that's what I understand from it). Any help in translating this, as well as removing it would be greatly appreciated.

The error message would be the following (I managed to get a screencap of it):

no es espanol

es italiano

Title fixed, then.

Quit looking up hairy italian girls you sick thing.

freetranslations.com + bored Vegiemaster =

The software of connection-navigation. This software is exempt from virus to 100%. Caution! proceeding welcome the conditions of utilization of the software and you declare to have finished 18 years. The cost of the connection is of an euro and ninety hundredths (euro 1.99) to the minute iva inclusive piu' zero euro (euro 00.31) of release to the reply, the duration of the connection is of twenty minutes (20 min) consecutive. If welcome it clicks on the: itself. Good fun!


it's not perfect, but understandable.

Just great. Now how to get rid of it?

And Rob; It's odd how I expected such a reply from you. :|

What can I say? Other than atleast I am a man of consistency.

You could say something on how to solve it.

SO far I know that: Dialer Detect is worth crap, Ad-Aware, Spybot and Spywaredoctor let it slip through, and there's no regkey or other trace to be found on both of my HD's. No idea where the damn thing originally came from either.

I also know that I can't work this way.

try looking around in your internet/network settings.

Nothing there relating to this dialerthing as far as I can see.

Maybe try the Webroot "Spy Sweeper." It's not free, but there is a free trial. Its quite good, I believe, so it might pick up whatever it is bothering you.

http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/?rc=266&ac=800&wt.srch=1&wt.mc_id=800

Already tried 20 (Okay, 19) different spyware removal tools, and none worked. Since the popups had shorter intervals all the time, and Dialer Detect noticed me that it actually changed everytime I tried to remove it, I decided to use a restore point. *shrug*

Got the job done, but yeah.

PIZZA!

SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALL!

Yeah, that's my italian for you.

I know some italian. Not like my german though.

(which is bad)

Nein

It could have been a trojan, for which you should have ran a fully-fledged antivirus program.

If you're willing to wait 18 or so hours I could get Izzy to translate it, but I don't think that'll help too much

Yeah, fat hairy italian male lesbians with an amputation fetish and great stalking skills FTW!

And on the topic of removing malware from a computer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0504.mspx

Run--> msconfig
Startup tab. See if anything there looks suspicious. That won't get rid of it, but it'll stop programs from running on startup.