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Thread ID: 37223	2003-09-01 03:59:00	Computer starts spontaneously	Rod ger (316)	Press F1

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172153	2003-09-01 03:59:00	My daughters' computer running XP starts itself spontaneously and logs on to the net, I have not had a chance to look at it and see what may be doing it. Anyone else had this problem?	Rod ger (316)
172154	2003-09-01 04:05:00	Do you mean it's turns itself on and logs onto the internet, or you mean it just logs in when the computer is running? If auto dial is on then anything that requests the net will make it dial, so spyware, legit programs like windows updates anything like that will make it dial. Has she got a firewall, antivirus, would pay to have those installed to help monitor what is doing it.	Kame (312)
172155	2003-09-01 04:33:00	yep turns the computer on and dails out. She has had to pull the phone line out as she doesn't know how long or often this has been happening(effective lotec). I thought it was quite neat how it turned the machine off when you closed XP, but I didn't know it worked in reverse. It seems similar to beetle's post on the same page. AV and firewall installed but I have not yet been able to look at it.	Rod ger (316)
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