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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software

Porn dialers

Saturday September 20, 2003
Commonly known as "porn dialers", these Trojaned services hijack your dial-up connection, changing it to a pay-per-minute service that quickly adds big charges to your phone bill. Andreas Marx of AV-Test.org reports on this alarming trend. Report is in .PDF format and requires the free Adobe Reader to view.
View report: Porn Dialers: Another Class of Malware?
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