OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] More serious hacking/viruses

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Oct 19, 2005
• 760 views

ZNorQ wrote:
> 
> I hope you aren't planning to pay that bill, are you? :P
> 

That's good advice, Al. 
Try very hard to get your phone company to cancel the charges. 
Most of those 900 scams are run out of small caribbean countries, and 
if Ma Bell refuses to pay them, there's not much they can do about it. 

You most likely made several mistakes:
Using IE.
Running Windows as administrator.
Running Windows, period.
And, I'm guessing, running without a firewall. A good firewall would have 
asked for permission before letting that exe access your modem. 

Irv