Ultra-Dial

Overview

Summary

Dials all phone numbers within a specified range, to determine if there is modem response.

Category

War Dialer: (demon-dialing, carrier-scanning) War-dialing was popularized in the 1983 movie War Games. It is the process of dialing all the numbers in a range in order to find any machine that answers. Many corporations have desktop computers with attached modems; attackers can dial in order to break into the desktop, and thereafter the corporation. Similarly, many companies have servers with attached modems that aren't considered as part of the general security scheme. Since most security emphasis these days is on Internet-related attacks, war-dialing represents the ""soft underbelly"" of the security infrastructure that can be exploited.

Variants

Ultra-Dial 3.0 · Ultra-Dial 5.1 ·

Origins

Author

Paul Levy

Others By This Author

Ultra-Dial 3.0 · Ultra-Dial 5.1 ·

Phone:

818-986-1673

Date of Origin

Variants from March, 1986 to March, 1998

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

Follow these steps to remove Ultra-Dial from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

Stop Running Processes:

Kill these running processes with Task Manager:

Remove Files:

Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

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