Fishy or what?

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Ted Lancaster

Hi guys

I wanted the latest version of Winzip and Googled accordingly.
Recived a list of sites and went for the "Free Downloads".
Got to a site called 1000downloads.co.uk
Clicked on 'download Winzip9'.

My internet connection to my ISP was immediately terminated and was
reconnected to a new one with the premium number of 09097927979.
There was even a new entry in my Dial Up Networking folder and a shortcut on
my desktop.

There was no indication of their call charges but at say, £1 per minute, a
thirty minute "free download" could be quite expensive. I feel that an
inexperienced user could be seriously conned.

Anyone have any views?

Egwig UK
 
Ted said:
Hi guys

I wanted the latest version of Winzip and Googled accordingly.
Recived a list of sites and went for the "Free Downloads".
Got to a site called 1000downloads.co.uk
Clicked on 'download Winzip9'.

My internet connection to my ISP was immediately terminated and
was reconnected to a new one with the premium number of
09097927979. There was even a new entry in my Dial Up Networking
folder and a shortcut on my desktop.

There was no indication of their call charges but at say, £1 per
minute, a thirty minute "free download" could be quite
expensive. I feel that an inexperienced user could be seriously
conned.

Anyone have any views?

Egwig UK
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Winzip is Not freeware.
And your question might be better asked at a group like
24hoursupport.helpdesk.

Thanks. :)
 
Hi guys

I wanted the latest version of Winzip and Googled accordingly.
Recived a list of sites and went for the "Free Downloads".
Got to a site called 1000downloads.co.uk
Clicked on 'download Winzip9'.

My internet connection to my ISP was immediately terminated and was
reconnected to a new one with the premium number of 09097927979.
There was even a new entry in my Dial Up Networking folder and a shortcut on
my desktop.

There was no indication of their call charges but at say, £1 per minute, a
thirty minute "free download" could be quite expensive. I feel that an
inexperienced user could be seriously conned.

Anyone have any views?

Egwig UK
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very fishy

they show at the top of the site that they are a pay site, 1.5 euros
per minute, dialler - but in small letters

You also have to install a plug in to dial. If you do not know what
you are installing, then don't !

I guess this has been an education for you :-(

Maybe worth complaining to winzip, nero and the other titles they
offer for download ?



The site is part of megadownloads.com - one to avoid at all costs
 
Anyone have any views?
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A few. Download only from sites you trust. In this case, the
shareware you wanted is available from its own homepage.
alt.comp.shareware folks might help you find legit sources if you
can't find them googling. If no one there can help, there is
24hoursupport.helpdesk. For help with the dialer you installed, you
might try alt.comp.anti-virus, where there are folks familiar with all
manner of malware, or again 24hoursupport.helpdesk.

<http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html> has good tips too.
 
Ted said:
I wanted the latest version of Winzip and Googled accordingly.
Recived a list of sites and went for the "Free Downloads".
Got to a site called 1000downloads.co.uk
Clicked on 'download Winzip9'.
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Why not just download it from its home site?
 
Hi guys

I wanted the latest version of Winzip and Googled accordingly.
Recived a list of sites and went for the "Free Downloads".
Got to a site called 1000downloads.co.uk
Clicked on 'download Winzip9'.

My internet connection to my ISP was immediately terminated and was
reconnected to a new one with the premium number of 09097927979.
There was even a new entry in my Dial Up Networking folder and a
shortcut on my desktop.

There was no indication of their call charges but at say, £1 per
minute, a thirty minute "free download" could be quite expensive. I
feel that an inexperienced user could be seriously conned.

Anyone have any views?
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Obviously you have not turned off "install on demand" in Internet
Exploiter. Better do it, or this will only be the beginning of your
problems.
 
Ted Lancaster said:
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I wanted the latest version of Winzip and Googled accordingly.
Received a list of sites and went for the "Free Downloads".
Got to a site called 1000downloads.co.uk
Clicked on 'download Winzip9'.

My internet connection to my ISP was immediately terminated and was
reconnected to a new one with the premium number of 09097927979.
There was even a new entry in my Dial Up Networking folder and a
shortcut on my desktop.

There was no indication of their call charges but at say, £1 per
minute, a thirty minute "free download" could be quite expensive.
I feel that an inexperienced user could be seriously conned.
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As a follow-up to this OT problem, here is a digest of the response
to this question from alt.privacy.spyware NG:
_______________________________

It is a dialer/hijacker called WebTelecom. There are so many of these
things that's it's hard to keep the names straight, so I don't know if
SpyBot or Ad-Aware identify it. I will send them a submission. In the
meantime, make sure that you do not pay those charges and inform the
phone company of the situation. All of this is against the Computer
Abuse Act 1990. If you need help removing the dialer, post a request
in alt.privacy.spyware.

The best thing you can do to enhance your security is to use another
browser -- anything but Internet Explorer; that puts virtually all the
dialers and hijackers to bed. Add the following to your HOSTS file:

127.0.0.1 www.megadownloads
127.0.0.1 www.1000downloads.co.uk
127.0.0.1 www.sponsoradulto.com

Sponge
Sponge's Secure Solutions
www.geocities.com/yosponge
My new email: yosponge2 et yahoo dot com
__________________________

A popular solution to IE vulnerabilities is to use FREE Firebird for
browsing the internet. Leave IE installed, just don't use it.

http://texturizer.net/firebird/features.html
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7/MozillaFirebird-0.7-win32.zip

BoB
 
As a follow-up to this OT problem, here is a digest of the response
to this question from alt.privacy.spyware NG:
Click to expand...
The best thing you can do to enhance your security is to use another
browser -- anything but Internet Explorer; that puts virtually all the
dialers and hijackers to bed. Add the following to your HOSTS file:
Click to expand...

Or the second-best thing, which is what I've done....my computer
doesn't even have a modem in it, since we share DSL through a router
:)
 
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