Webpage dialed my modem to ?

From: Cubit (no_at_no.not)
Date: 10/19/03 

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:52:43 GMT

A German *webpage* dialed out over my modem, when I clicked that I was 18
years old (18 Jarhen). It also put a new Icon on my desktop.

I'm worried I'm going to have a $100 charge on my phone bill for 20 seconds
of a call to God-Knows-Where.

I knew email trojans could do this, but the webpage attack was a surprise.
I am on DSL. The modem was just there for a backup, if/when the DSL line is
down.

Is there an option that would give me a prompt before a webpage does this
again, or block modem calls that do not come from me? I already had the:
Network and Dialup Connections > Advanced > Dialup Preferences set to
"always ask me before autodialing" -but it did it anyway.

I found a new New Connection Icon. The number it called was: 0112463531444

WIN2000 IE6.0 ZoneAlarm Norton Anti-Virus

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