Hi I did some work on my friends pc recently. He left it with me for a few days. I ran a virus scan (AVG) and checked for spyware/adware(spybot / ad-aware).I found no viruses and have now returned his PC. My friend has now received a bill which contains entries for premium rate telephone calls which were made at the same time I had his PC at my house. His telephone company has advised him that these MAY be dialup viruses which sometimes get installed into your PC (there was no sign of rogue dialup connections during spybot / ad-aware scan, and nothing suspicious in network connections) My friend seems to think that while I had his PC at my home, I used his PC to access premium rate telephone numbers but at the same time getting the telephone call billed to his telephone account. I have never heard of rogue dialup connections being able bill other telephone users but please correct me if I am wrong. Many thanks mark

Unless the computer was still connected to his phone line, I think it is safe to assume that the computer did not make those calls. If a virus was able to hack into the telco's billing system, I can't imagine why it would pick his account to redirect the bill to. There are much higher profile targets to choose from. I would be inclined to think somebody got bored without the computer to occupy them.

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If the computer was at your place there is no way that the calls came from his computer. Unless of course you hooked the computer up and it accepted reverse charge calls.....to YOUR line...IMHO an impossible senario. D4Dog "beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder"