On 30 Aug 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article
<1156991077.174148.288980@74g2000cwt.googlegroups. com>, spviking wrote:

>Yes Moe trin is correct this is what I was referring to. My Cousin uses
>Time Warner's Road Runner here in New York and he got his recent
>Verizon phone bill and found 600 dollars worth of calls to Cameroon,
>Austria and Madagascar.

Let's stop here for a moment. Is this cable-modem? Your original post
said "someone who uses broadband (not dsl)", and unless you are somehow
using RR to also do the long distance telephone service, or VoIP, and there
is no telephone line connected to the computer, then Verizon should not be
involved.

>The phone company told him it was likely modem hijacking (what Moe Trin
>described). My cousin does not have his phone line plugged into his
>computer at all and we cant figure out how this malware could have
>effectively charged his phone bill.

Verizon appears to be assuming that you have a modem and telephone line
connected to it. If this is not the case, contest to charges, and
contact the state public utilities commission (or what-ever state
agency regulates the telephone companies).

Could this have been someone (perhaps a child) calling a 1-900 or 1-976
number?

Old guy