My daughter recently went on a music web site and without knowing blessed me with a £150.00 phone bill for the month. Apparently she went on to a Rogue Dialer site and this redirects our Free ISP dialer to a Super Premium Dialer without you knowing. Is there any way to stop this happening? (Our phone company were not very helpful, but they were glad of the money) I havent had this months phone bill yet.....
Many thanks

Michelle, December 2004

My son did the same.
Telephone b.t and they will issue a code to bar premium rate numbers that will prvent this in future.
Another thing is download free antispyware programme from microsoft.

sparky, December 2005

www.stopdial.com has anti-dialler software (stopITnow!).

Amy, January 2005

The problem is that Internet Explorer allows code (and malicious code) to run.

There is useful information here. http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/prevent.php

My view is that making Internet Explorer "safe" by turning off all the code related options is quite a piece of work. You could follow the instructions on the above link to do this, but I would strongly recommend downloading and switching to Firefox. Firefox is a very friendly safe web browser and its approach to code within web pages is very different to IE.

Pop U, December 2004