-=> Quoting Kurt Wismer to Richard St. John <=-
 KW> it does work and it was real, however, it was an attack against a
 KW> specific peice of software... consider the possibility that you don't
 KW> use that software...
Always considered it, but still do not see how you could sit through a
dialing pause while the modem dials XXX-XX-XX-XXX-XXXX which is the
international code, country code, city code and a number.
 
 KW> it's the trojan horse program discussed in this echo not too long ago
 KW> that changes the number your dialer program dials to an isp in
 KW> moldavia (i have no idea how to spell the place properly)... it was
 KW> hidden in a program that the user was told would do something s/he
 KW> wanted (display some movie format file in realtime over the net, i
 KW> think) and so the users would install it and bad things would happen
 KW> with their phone bill afterwards... there are a heap of conditions
 KW> required for it to work and go unnoticed (like you have to be in zone
 KW> 1, have an internal modem, be using the right software, etc)...
To many conditions, and almost impossible to go unnoticed, even if you
don't know about your modem. But I guess some people fell for it.
Interesting.
RS
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