Re: Can dialer viruses turn on the computer?

From: Galen (galennews_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:26:26 -0500

In news:42468ccd_1@news.iprimus.com.au,
Martin, VK2UMJ <vk2umj@yahoo.invalid> had this to say:

 My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> 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...

I can imagine that it could be pretty alarming to go to bed and know for a
fact that you'd turned the PC off and to wake up with it turned back on and
ready to go. I'm pretty sure that would bug the heck out of me the first few
times at any rate.

Anyhow, it's Easter and the kids are awake and have hunted down all 48
easter eggs (24 each with color specific findings and equal prizes in each
plastic egg) so I'm going to get some sleep. I'm not a very religious person
but I still can't figure out what the whole egg hunt has to do with the
death or rising of a man on a cross. I'm thinking it's some pagan holiday
that's mixed in with the religious rite because the church couldn't
completely abolish it.

Perhaps digging to find the reason for the restarts while the computer was
off was a bit like an Easter egg hunt?

Galen 

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Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.