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Posted by Starman on August 18, 2006, 9:22 am
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my computer seems to be trying to dial up on its own and the only way I can
stop it is by turning the computer off and restarting, this will be fine for
a while until it happens again. I ran all my anti-virus software plus
security software and it's come up clean, any idea what the problem could
be?
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Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on August 18, 2006, 12:36 pm
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Starman wrote:
> my computer seems to be trying to dial up on its own and the only way I can
> stop it is by turning the computer off and restarting, this will be fine for
> a while until it happens again. I ran all my anti-virus software plus
> security software and it's come up clean, any idea what the problem could
> be?
If you cannot trust your system any longer, then you should flatten and
rebuild.
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Posted by Jim Watt on August 18, 2006, 2:03 pm
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>If you cannot trust your system any longer, then you should flatten and
>rebuild.
You certainly can't trust Gottschalk
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Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com
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Posted by Todd H. on August 18, 2006, 3:05 pm
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> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:36:53 +0200, Sebastian Gottschalk
>
> >If you cannot trust your system any longer, then you should flatten and
> >rebuild.
>
> You certainly can't trust Gottschalk
True, but to turn the discussion back to fact-based discourse, his
recommended action for a system potentially compromised with anything
is 100% correct.
Reformat, reinstall from original media.
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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Posted by Jim Watt on August 18, 2006, 3:43 pm
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>but to turn the discussion back to fact-based discourse, his
>recommended action for a system potentially compromised with anything
>is 100% correct.
>
>Reformat, reinstall from original media.
But its hardly ever necessary and a waste of time.
We are talking about a home user who will not have a good
backup position, probably does not have all the drivers and
software necessary to reinstate the software on his system
and these days going back to the CD means shedloads of
updates from MS and hours of work. The 'original media'
may need a 100mb of downloads and this guy has a modem ...
last week I did a W2K server from the installation CD's and
it was a day and a half for the system and a l o n g time
to move the data over their network.
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Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com
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