I see that I'm one of many to get ripped off by Alyon.
I got an e-mail spam from them with just the following in the body: "Hey, check out my new page.
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Since I know someone of that name who was designing a web page, it seemed worth a click.in retrospect, that was dumb.
My machine hung like there was a big flash intro, or a lot of graphics trying to load, then spawned a gaggle of empty pop-up windows. After clicking furiously to close everything, I started a new browser, and everying seemed to work normally, with the exception of being dropped and having to redial a few minutes later.
I later saw that I had been on for 19 minutes after I clicked the spam link, at almost 5 bucks/min.
I've written a letter denying that I owe them anything, but I wonder whan else can be done, other then complaining to the FCC, FTC, etc. Has anyone looked into a class action suit? I wouldn't mind being compensated for the time it took to eradicate all traces of Alyon from my computer, even if it were only $. 02.
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