Talk:Dialer

Can I translate the German article? de:Dialer

Just asking in case somebody objects this - I don't want to do the work, then have it removed. ;)

SebastianBreier 15:23, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I translated almost all of it. Have fun! :) -- Tomcat 13:01, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Regarding section Installation routes

Can you please cite or at least state the following sources for

"Starting in 2003, new Visual Basic-scripts install a trojan horse which changes values in the Microsoft Windows registry and sets Internet Explorer security settings in a way that ActiveX controls can be downloaded from the Internet without warning. After this change is made, when a user accesses a malicious page or email message, it can start installing the dialer.[emphasis added]"

I need to do more research on this topic. Thanks.

On the lengthy cybersecurity lecture in Installation routes

Is this really necessary? It does not strike me as particularly relevant to this article. I'd love to take a whack at trimming it down if no one minds. Steelswords1 (talk) 03:27, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Proposal to addition

I propose you to add site to the listing www.modemguard.net It contains the software for dialer blocking.

point of view

i don't like how the article uses 'your phone line' and others like that, doesn't sound like an encyclopedia article.

Biased POV

In view of Wikipedia's NPOV policy, I think that the following line should not mention Microsoft Windows specifically.

"The providers of such dialers often search for security holes (usually in Microsoft Windows)...".

I have edited the line to be more neutral:

"The providers of such dialers often search for security holes that may be present in the operating system installed on..." Pavithran 12:36, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

ITIL link removed

I have suppressed the unexplained link to ITIL - anyone know what it was for? PJTraill (talk) 12:29, 19 September 2008 (UTC)