BT let me off a £2,000 bill 'cus my dialer.exe got hijacked and I was calling a Seychelles premium line. I'd turned off the sound on my 56k? modem and didn't sp

BT let me off a £2,000 bill 'cus my dialer.exe got hijacked and I was calling a Seychelles premium line. I'd turned off the sound on my 56k? modem and didn't spot the extremely long beeps and boops. That's what got me started on basic security...zone alarm (pre-shitty-ness), proxomitron, hosts files (and other blocking lists/ banner blockers), autoexec.bat to delete histories, being caught out by dark patterns etc. Fun times....'cus the internet was fun at the time, too. Nowadays, despite a trove of bookmarks, I visit very, very, very few new-to-me sites.