Re: PrivateNet in Ontario

From: ChrisD (chrisdengler@hotmail.com)
Date: 04/28/02 

From: "ChrisD" <chrisdengler@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:12:26 GMT

IIRC, these porn-dialers were heavily spammed out of attcanada space ...
freeworld.ca and netmails.ca in particular.

Someone probably clicked on the spamvertized url and allowed the exe to run.

"SethAbeFan" <livinganon@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:aah7bp$gni$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net...
> Has anyone found a shortcut that they didn't know about, on their Start Up
> menu? I just found a shortcut that points to a small program, called:
> "PrivateNet".
>
> When I selected the shortcut, up came a small self-contained dialog-based
> app which had a scrolling text warning to not hit the connect button
unless
> you're 18. It mentioned the 900 number that your modem connects to if you
> hit the connect button.
>
> I don't go to porn sites - I only go to yahoo groups for different
interests
> and also web sites dealing with books, or sites like Amazon and bookpool.
>
> Anyone seen this?

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