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New powers granted to slam rogue diallers
News This, the regulator says, will help it to fight criminals who are trying to defraud UK consumers by secretly running dialler software on their computers. Now that it has the power to approve all UK premium rate services, ICSTIS says it will be able...
[July 16, 2004, 13:10]
BT offers protection against rogue diallers
News This should stop dialler software, which can be secretly installed on a PC and used to connect to the Web via premium numbers rather than their ISP's dial-up number. BT is also launching an early-warning system that will alert customers if an...
[March 15, 2005, 16:00]
Klez still dominates the virus top 10
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Anti-Virus, said: "While Klez refuses to go away, a new entry this month is Datemake - a type of malware known as a dialler. Dial/Datemake-A (Datemake dialler) 1.6 per cent
[April 30, 2003, 13:31]
Eten P700 review
Reviews Further away from this trio and outside their black boundary are, on the left, a Start Call button that brings up the dialler screen and, on the right, an End call button. The P700 runs Windows Mobile 2003 software for Pocket PC Phone Edition, and...
[February 25, 2004, 11:00]
Regulator demands more powers to fight rogue diallers
Talkback There are also many software programs which monitor the modem driver and display a warning dialog when a rogue dialler tries to dial one of the "forbidden" numbers. As I don't have a modem in any of my machines and I have never been had by a rogue...
[July 9, 2004, 9:02]
Microsoft shows off Pocket PC Phone Edition
News All the Pocket PC 2002 applications reappear, with the most obvious new application being a phone dialler for voice calls. The dialler has a variety of extra features, including speed dialling, caller ID support, call waiting, conference calls...
[April 17, 2002, 17:15]
Ofcom gets tough on rogue diallers
News Ofcom now wants to extend the rules so that ICSTIS can take action against any rogue dialler irrespective of the telephone number used or the call charges involved. An Ofcom spokesman told ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com: "This means that a...
[November 22, 2005, 9:05]
Clampdown on rogue diallers is imminent
News Forcing every premium rate operator to register their services should help stop dialler software that uses UK numbers. Some complaints, though, have been linked to overseas numbers, ICSTIS believes that UK telcos need to pay more attention to this...
[July 14, 2004, 17:25]
Motorola A925 review
Reviews There's plenty of other software on ROM, including a music player and note taker (which lets you both sketch to the screen and use handwriting recognition), applications for managing digital images and video and communications-orientated software...
[April 29, 2004, 12:20]
BT offers protection against rogue diallers
Talkback I went to BT.com and typed 'rogue dialler' into the search engine and got this http://www.bt.com/btprivacyonline/ How difficult is that exactly?
[September 8, 2005, 9:42]
pocket PhoneTools 4 Pro (English)
Downloads Fax, SMS, Internet, Dialler and phonebook, you are now free to communicate. Monitor your traffic with the Data Session Logs Export your Data Session Logs to Text format Automatic detection of the brand and model of mobile phone Automatic detection...
[April 28, 2003, 8:00]
CiceroPhone for Windows Mobile Pocket PC review
Reviews CiceroPhone replaces Windows Mobile's phone dialler and integrates with your Pocket Outlook contacts. Any commercial implementation is likely to have a different look and feel to our review ‘skin’ (Cicero Networks expects partners such as VoIP...
[November 25, 2005, 14:45]
FoneHome
Downloads Small and free, yet fully-featured, DTMF dialler for the TRGPro
[August 12, 2000, 8:00]
Bakelite
Downloads Beautiful old fashioned Bakelite style rotary dialler for the iPhone.
[December 19, 2009, 19:30]
AOL counts on freebies to keep users interested
Talkback The sooner AOL remove the need to have that crap dialler on their network the sooner people will come back. I am an EX Aol user and i left them because you HAVE to have the stupid interface, i dont care for their interface taking up room on my...
[August 15, 2006, 17:50]
BT to block rogue diallers
Talkback DIALLER AND THAT I SHOULD CONTACT RE; PREMIUM RATE CALLS, I CONTACTED ICSTIS TO BE TOLD THE ADDRESS OF THE THEM TO REIMBURSE ME FOR THE PHONE CALLS. I DON'T THINK FOR ONE MOMENT THAT SOME ANONYMOUS PERSON WILL RETURN THE MONEY THEY STOLE,AND WOULD...
[August 6, 2004, 19:52]
BT to block rogue diallers
Talkback ANY HELP OR ADVICE GRATEFULLY RECEIVED: I have just been landed with a £1200 phone bill from BT due to a rogue dialler on my pc for the last quarter. No one at BT seems to be able to offer any constructive help and just pass you onto another...
[July 28, 2005, 10:21]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback In spite of the so-called protection, I got the dialler and it dialled the premium rate number without me knowing. I'm a McAfee viruscan subscriber and I use Wanadoo Anytime dialup. Both companies say it's my responsibility.
[October 15, 2004, 17:08]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback I have been billed £2700 for one premium rate phone call by BT made while I was away for a weekend by an outo dialler that had been installed on my PC without my knowledge. The call lasted 27 hours and was eventually ended by BT.
[December 17, 2004, 11:38]
AOL casts doubts on BT's child-porn protection
Talkback I think that a worm could spread an auto dialler to dial onto compromised computers, to dial some of these sites, in order to get onto web crawlers, and this is probably increasing BT figures. one of the other questions is is it possible to spoof...
[July 21, 2004, 12:38]
