Misterious Papua phone calls in telco bill

From: Faustino Dina (ffdina_at_matusa.com.mx)
Date: 09/29/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:44:10 -0500

    I signed for a home internet service recently with my local phone service
    provider. When I check my monthly bill, it is a international call to Papua
    (New Guinea?) that I didn't do. Calling to my phone service provider it says
    that that call was made while I was connected to the Internet, when visiting
    some xxx pages. They said that the phone company has some kind of
    arrangement with such web sites therefore any visit to these paid pages are
    billed to the originating phone company and the telco bills me. I never
    heard something like that. I was confident the only way to bill on the web
    was by using a credit card or other services like PayPal that at the end of
    the chain also requires a credit card or bank account.
    Anyway, the real problem is that for second month the telco is billing me
    another call to Papua, and this time I'm 100% sure nobody went to any payed
    web site. Telco says that just visiting once such a page, it can be making
    international calls despite you are not visiting the page. So it looks like
    a virus, trojan, spyware or something alike.
    Do you have notice of such way of "doing bussiness"? I mean, pay per view
    web sites that bill clients by using the user's service provider telephone
    company?
    How can I protect from such viruses? (Telco said I should format the hard
    disk to be sure)

    Thanks in advance 

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