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To: bosquedog who wrote (25252)2/3/2002 1:11:39 AM
From: B.K.Myers  Read Replies (2) of 110653
 
bosquedog,

On January 1st, I was surfing the Web and ended up at a suspicious Web site. Suddenly I heard my modem dialing a number (I use a cable modem for all on-line work). I was immediately surprised and suspicious, so I picked up my phone and sure enough, it was dialing a number on my phone.

Since I hadn't asked my computer to dial out, I immediate reached behind my computer and disconnected my phone line. I thought that I had successfully broken the connection. Then two days ago I got my phone bill. Sure enough, there was a $35 call to a 900 number. Connection time was listed as one minute, but I know that it couldn't have been more than a couple of seconds. Luckily, my phone company, Verizon, was very understanding and removed the charge from my bill.

I have since installed and I am now running Naviscope but I am still uncertain about how much protection I actually have. The SurfinGuard looks like a good piece of software which I just downloaded and will install it on my PC.

Thanks for the link.

B.K.
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