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Dial/Dialer-MZ

Aliases
  • Porn-Dialer.Win32.Generic
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 7 December 2005 11:27:24 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Dial/Dialer-MZ is a dialer application for the Windows platform.

When run, Dial/Dialer-MZ creates the following files:
<Temp>\sdl<random>.tmp
<Temp>\sdl<random>.tmp.reg
<Temp>\sdl<random>.tmp.exe

where <random> is a random digit. The sdl<random>.tmp.exe file is also detected as Dial/Dialer-MZ. The remaining files are data and may be safely deleted.

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