CUNT ALERT +++ Important !!!

[Mick Moss]

Were left with a £500 bill from British Telecom for 2 days worth of internet.

Why? Because some cunt has hacked into my pc and changed my dial-up default settings on my modem to that of a premium line which dedicated 12k to surfing the internet really slowly and the remaining 75% of my modems use to clocking away on a premium number terminating in fucking thailand and costing £2 a minute.

BT arent interested at all. They know whats happened (apparently its going off everywhere) but they insist we have to pay our bill. In fact, I cam hardly understand a word they say because in an ironic twist, 'British' Telecom is now manned exclusively by pakistanis who speak appalling english. Bangladesh Telecom indeed.

Anyone on a modem BEWARE! Always check that your dialing number is the same before you connect to the internet or you could end up paying half a grand to surf the internet at speeds less than half of that of a 33k modem.

 

[Sopel]

i heard the same happens here, so one of tele companies blocked all connections to some countries.

 

[Bambi]

fucking toerags, our telecoms are gonna block certain countries too. theyre also talking of forcing ISPs to montior the situation and give people tools and info to avoid it. ISPs are making a fortune off throwing ppl onto the interweb when they havent a clue what theyre about

be careful kids. firewalled a.v'd and patched at all times!! or just get broadband

 

[Lord_Of_This_World]

sounds like spy/scumware. download adaware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
install and scan,make sure you update the definitions regularly.
alternatively if you have kazaa or any other file sharing program the full versions can always be found on there.
on suprnova too for those of you with a bittorrent client.

 

[Gronke]

Try Spybot Search&Destroy

or perhaps Spywareblaster

 

[Maqus]

Does ADSL count as broadband?

 

[marginalé]

so you are gonna pay the bill?

 

[Lord_Of_This_World]

be careful using spybot, it can fuck your system up.

 

[Gronke]

be careful using spybot, it can fuck your system up.

Well, there's always a risk - but it's better than to have a load of crap in your windows pc I guess.

 

[bleed_black_orchid]

thats appauling.

write a formal letter to British Telecom customer services explaining what happened. you cant pay for that since it was totally out of your control.

awww

 

[best]

that happens here too, try a program named YAW , its in german but its pretty easy to use. i had a similar problem, a web site (i admit, it was porn) disconnected my connection and tried to dial another number, i pulled the plug and installed this program. it found the dialer, deleted it and made sure the only number that can be dialed is my ISP' number.

 

[Gronke]

Mozilla Firefox will not run those active-x apps, and you won't get hi-jacked, a good reason to switch browser.

 

[Bambi]

like fuck, firefox on my pc at home and in work is a heap. hangs on downloads constantly, takes ages to fire up, even managed to hang explorer a few times which meant a reboot. only thing it has is the fact it will warn on exes downloaded thru webpages which both ie on XP SP2 and the msn toolbar do anyway. firefox me hole

 

[Gronke]

Works nice here, but it can be a bit memory-intense I've noticed.

 

[StevenK]

same happens in this country mick, although it could have been worse. there are serious high premium numbers over here to foreign dialup places like jamaca and stuff, they cost about 3.50 a minute, and the telco's ( mainly eircom ) does not allow call barring on these premium numbers. they're in it for the money and barring those numbers would reduce their profits

 

[Gronke]

@StevenK: do you have these dodgy companies claiming 100eds of € (or £ in your case?) from the surfers, via "collecting companies" too?

There was a huge problem in Sweden with this, though it's calmed down a bit, since the state took SOME action. In Switzerland such activities is ILLEGAL, period.

 

[best]

hmmm, yeah YAW can cause problems but i thought they were unique to my pre historic computer. though i wouldn't give it up, i dont wanna face a huge phone bill

 

[Gronke]

Or de-activate active-x

 

[Mick Moss]

so you are gonna pay the bill?

Not sure yet, the phone compay are adamant that we have to pay though.

 

[blackeyed]

take the fuckers to court - all of em, any of em.
gobshite hacking bastards