-=> Mocking Richard to Tim <=-
  (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 TB> Have also heard about this one, apparently it changes your dialup
 TB> number to one in Russia and does not tell you about it. The result is
 TB> that you get a very expensive phone bill. It cannot connect your modem
 TB> to the server itself though.
 RSJ> How would this work. My dialup number is displayed in the ATDT line
 RSJ> every time {I use Winsock at home} and the RAS Dialer in NT at work.
it does work and it was real, however, it was an attack against a
specific peice of software... consider the possibility that you don't
use that software...
 RSJ> More info please, if you have it.
it's the trojan horse program discussed in this echo not too long ago
that changes the number your dialer program dials to an isp in moldavia
(i have no idea how to spell the place properly)... it was hidden in a
program that the user was told would do something s/he wanted (display
some movie format file in realtime over the net, i think) and so the
users would install it and bad things would happen with their phone bill
afterwards... there are a heap of conditions required for it to work and
go unnoticed (like you have to be in zone 1, have an internal modem, be
using the right software, etc)...
... don't scan this tagline, it has the 141$FLU...
                   
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