Re: Can dialer viruses turn on the computer?
From: Martin, VK2UMJ (vk2umj_at_yahoo.invalid)
Date: 03/27/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:36:34 +1000
"Galen" <galennews@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uzATKGrMFHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> In news:424646b0_1@news.iprimus.com.au,
[SNIP]
> nothing wrong. <g> Really though it's not done at this point and
> disconnecting due to the threat is a pain. If the power is spiking that
> bad as the person Martin said then get a power surge that protects phone
> jacks as well and disable wake on LAN features in your CMOS.
Exactly what I ended up doing - disable wake on LAN/Modem/whatever in CMOS,
added surge protector/filtering to power and phone line, and problem solved.
It was just interesting because this was the first PC I had that actually
did this, and at first it wasn't obvious what was making it power up at
random...
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