Neil Bothwick wrote the following about [netconnect] Re: NTL questions:
>
> Roy Perkins said,
>
> > The only input I can offer is in reply to question 2. I read in one of my
> > local papers recently about a guy who went to some kind of medical site while
> > surfing with NTL and the site put a charge onto his phone bill. I don't know
> > the name of the sight though, like this poor bloke (who had run up quite a
> > bill) I thought there weren't any sites that did this. Maybe one of our
> > resident web wizards can enlighten us all on this?
>
> A phone bill is exactly that, a bill for phone charges. There's no way a
> web site can put something on your phone bill any more than they can
> add a charge to your gas bill.
The guy should have checked his itemised bill. In the porn circuits
recently there have been some downloadable programs of the "you need
this plugin to see the badly digitised pictures of people pretending
to enjoy it" type. What these do is modify Windows modem dialer
settings to dial a premium rate or overseas number instead of your
usual ISP. Someone at my place of work 'accidentally' installed a
program of this type called "Katy's Back Door", and was mortified when
I showed him the entry in Dial-Up Networking for a computer with no
modem connected to 10Mb LAN ;-) These programs adjust Internet
Explorer's "dial this connection if not connected" properties to use
the "Katy's Back Door" profile.
Oh, quite a few of these programs have trojan horse behaviour, and
will send your password details for ICQ, Netscape etc. to the author.
Also some US users have found phonecalls being made by unattended
machines during the night! To Holland!! $600 bills have been
reported.
This could only happen to an OS where the spreadsheet and web brower
are more programmable than the desktop.
Totty <8^)
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Totty has an Amiga A1200, with 68060/50 and 603e/200 PPC.
32Mb RAM. 8x ATAPI CD. 1.7Gb HD. ShapeShifter V3.10 + OS 7.5.5
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