Popup from hell!

[Mr Webname]

BBC TV highlights web popup that leads to ISP connection being highjacked and re-connection via a Premium Rate Number:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog//reports/consumer1.shtml

 

[seeker]

sounds bad...
it used to be that this only happened with downloading porn related stuff and the infamous 'dialers'.
But a popup doing that?
Thats scary...

That being said, I didnt click on your link as I was not sure If that is the link with the popup itself...?

 

[Mr Webname]

I didnt click on your link as I was not sure If that is the link with the popup itself...?

No, I would never do that - it is the report from the BBC website

 

[seeker]

ahhh, ok...

it's a downloadable program.
they have been around for quite some time, but one can never be safe enough.
I knew a happy couple once... Until the telephone bill came to around 3000 euros...
Apparently his wife was 'porn' surfing by dialing anumber in the bahamas.

I still say use a Mac...
Free yourselves from these problems.

 

[Mr Webname]

Yes but it comes from a popup that cannot be closed down - the user keeps clickng on "no" until getting fedup and then clicks on "yes" rather than closing down. Owners of the popup are in Switzerland and known to have cleared £89,000 just from those reported to the BBC!

 

[lopramine45]

wow that is devious

 

[skylight]

i using cable....so should not be able to dialin