[928uk] virus warning : Dial/Top69 and 'Ringtone Universe'

[Nick Carrington]

I built Dr A's site - but using free hosting supported by advertising - the traffic being received at the time did not warrant paid hosting. It may be time to consider such, I will discuss offline with Dr. A.

Thanks for the heads-up

Nick C.
> 
> From: "Gareth Northwood" <Gareth.Northwood at eden.gov.uk>
> Date: 2004/04/05 Mon PM 01:12:00 GMT
> To: <928uk at 928.org.uk>
> Subject: [928uk] virus warning : Dial/Top69 and 'Ringtone Universe'
> 
> Just been on Dr.A's web page at www.928Spares.co.uk.
> 
> Whilst on the site a pop-up ad appeared for a company called 'Ringtone Universe', an SMS provider.
> 
> This pop-up window attempted to download the Dial/Top69 virus onto my PC which was detected by our corporate scanning software.  This is a premium rate dialer virus which attempts to help you spend lots of money without realising it!
> 
> This virus is nothing to do with Dr.A's website.  It's simply being sent by one of the unpleasant companies using the pop-up ad service associated with Dr.A's site.  I'm sure he won't be pleased when he gets back from hols! 
> 
> Gareth.
> 
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