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November 3rd, 2003, 04:58 PM

TomGillespie

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Overexcited modem

I'm still using a (cough) 56k modem to access the internet, but recently it seems to have a mind of its own.

My browsing/downloading speed is not affected, but when the computer is idle, it sends and recieves large amounts of data on its own.

For example, when I just connected, I left it idle for 10 minutes. In that time, it recieved over 6mb of data and sent 2.5mb.

My initial thoughts were spyware or something similar, but I don't know how to investigate that further.

Any ideas?

November 7th, 2003, 12:39 AM

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