OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] More serious hacking/viruses

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Oct 19, 2005
• 541 views

Hi Irv and ZNorQ,

I already talked to a rep and they took the charges off, but im 
looking into the future here too, to prevent it from happening again.

Irv, you think if i dont run as admin it might help?
Im stuck with windows for now...

Take care and thanks for the advice,
Al


irv mullins wrote:
> 
> 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
> 


Take care,
Al

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