FTC handles complaints against stealth dialer company
The Federal Trade Commission is going after Alyon Technologies for using pop-up ads to install stealth dialers, programs which secretly make users' computers dial into pay-per-minute porn sites. Often people don't realize what happened until they get their phone bills. Spyware Weekly newsletter reported on Alyon and other stealth dialer complaints in its April 9 and May 20 issues. More:
Representatives of Alyon and a client company defended their billing methods in an Adult Video News story in July.
