Access to Premium Rate Numbers with Broadband

If I have Broadband and a premium rate bar on the phone line

if I "accidentally" load a dodgy dialler , can it still ring out or would it need to hi-jack an existing connection ?

thanx in advance

mark eldon wrote:
> If I have Broadband and a premium rate bar on the phone line
>
> if I "accidentally" load a dodgy dialler , can it still ring out or
> would it need to hi-jack an existing connection ?
>
> thanx in advance

Answer this question, do you have a analogue modem attatched to your PC? If
so, yes. If not, how the hell is it going to dial out.....

i was asked to find out by somebody who was convinced that their connection was being hijacked once connected ..

mark eldon wrote:
> i was asked to find out by somebody who was convinced that their
> connection was being hijacked once connected ..

The broadband connection doesn't dial any number so how can it get hijacked.
You may get routed to another site, but as for dialing a premium rate DUN
it's an enfatic NO (unless you've still got the analogue modem connected for
some reason or other then it's another matter)...

On 13 Feb 2004, mark eldon wrote

> If I have Broadband and a premium rate bar on the phone line
>
> if I "accidentally" load a dodgy dialler , can it still ring out
> or would it need to hi-jack an existing connection ?

Broadband would have nothing to do with this -- it's purely an issue
with your old dial-up modem. (If you just removed the dial-up modem --
or disconnected it from the telephone line -- it should block them
entirely.)

I'm not sure about the premium-rate bar on the phone line, but I'd have
thought that would block the dial-up modem from calling such numbers in
the same way that it would block hand-dialling the numbers.

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Cheers,
Harvey

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:55:31 +0000, mark eldon wrote:

> If I have Broadband and a premium rate bar on the phone line
>
> if I "accidentally" load a dodgy dialler , can it still ring out or
> would it need to hi-jack an existing connection ?
>
> thanx in advance

Broadband is not a telephone-based techology and thus doesn't/can't dial
any phone numbers. Broadband Internet connections just happen to share the
wires leading from your house, but the sharing stops at the entrance to
your local phone exchange.

Regards

Eric Lee

"mark eldon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:P_9Xb.4068$Y%(E-Mail Removed)...
> If I have Broadband and a premium rate bar on the phone line
>
> if I "accidentally" load a dodgy dialler , can it still ring out or would
it need to hi-jack an existing connection ?
>
> thanx in advance
>

No way.

Does he have a firewall - if not why not

If its ultra secure law enforcement services have tools to shut down hard
drives and interrogate machines etc (if he's looking at dodgy illegal
websites perahaps.

In between spyware, windows bugs, viruses, very determined hackers if
security isn't quite good enough?

In english: run antivirus up to date, spyware remover , check firewall
entrys and interrogate what programs the computer is running. Also maybe to
a shields up test for good measure to check security afterwards (and
perahaps before).

Sam
>


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