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| Juke Joint Jezebel 407th Post
 
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|  "huh .. something's running my modem .. AHHHHH"
, posted Sun 2 Jun 21:01
ehh i've got a quick question .. well, it's more of a comment, but i wanna hear peoples' opinions on this. first, for your information, i'm using MSN's internet service (ya, i still connect to the internet with my phone line -_-). anyways,
the last 24 hours, when i've connected to the internet, i've noticed my modem running without any programs doing the running
no web browsers are loading, audiogalaxy and getright aren't even open yet, etc, etc. i seriously have no idea what's running my modem and it's kinda freaking me out. when i check the connection info, it says that the bit rate is transferring at about 2kbps, but when i start downloading a file (like a movie or a song or something), this mysterious transfer rate doesn't affect the file's transfer, so i'm guessing it either stops or ... i dunno really
anyone know what might be going on?
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| "MY COMPUTER IS UNDER ATTACK" , posted Sun 2 Jun 21:18
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ehh i've got a quick question .. well, it's more of a comment, but i wanna hear peoples' opinions on this. first, for your information, i'm using MSN's internet service (ya, i still connect to the internet with my phone line -_-). anyways,
the last 24 hours, when i've connected to the internet, i've noticed my modem running without any programs doing the running
no web browsers are loading, audiogalaxy and getright aren't even open yet, etc, etc. i seriously have no idea what's running my modem and it's kinda freaking me out. when i check the connection info, it says that the bit rate is transferring at about 2kbps, but when i start downloading a file (like a movie or a song or something), this mysterious transfer rate doesn't affect the file's transfer, so i'm guessing it either stops or ... i dunno really
anyone know what might be going on?
ARGHHHHHHHHHHH now something else is going on
all day, this thing kept popping up, telling me to install some damn program (i think it said "messenger something 4.71a8b" or something like that. i'm guessing it's that messenger thing that Microsoft uses. anyways, while typing up a message in another thread, i hit space bar right when that piece of shit popped up and now i think it's installing itself on my hard drive. maybe that's the crap that's been running my modem. anyways, i'm gonna run ad-aware, then update my antivirus and run that now. god, this sucks. if Microsoft's behind this, i am SO pissed at them right now. this is driving me insane, even though it's probably harmless
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| "Death Rattle 'n' Roll" , posted Mon 3 Jun 07:29
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I second Holiday's Notion. If this isn't so, you could always try deleting your current Dial-Up and setting it up, again.
the thing about my dial-up is msn forces me to use a weird program to dial to the internet, so ... i can't go straight to the default "dial this number" thing. if i try to, it won't let me dial into the internet because their computers won't detect their patented program. tricky Microsoft!
anyways, i think i figured out the program. after scanning and scanning and updating my software and scanning some more, i couldn't find anything (except for one "double-click" spyware hiding in my cookies folder. DAMN YOU DOUBLE-CLICK! i'm sick of seeing that crap appear on my desktop). back to what i was talking about, i logged onto the internet a few minutes ago and just sat here, watching anime music videos and i noticed that my modem's not going nuts any more ^_^
this is my theory of what happened -- that program that they force me to use to connect to the internet is full of all sorts of things that microsoft can sneak onto my computer. they tried to "sneak" a new version of microsoft messenger on my computer (like an automatic update thing) but my browser settings caught the potential security risk and stopped it, giving me a screen on whether or not i want to install the thing. every time i clicked "no" before, microsoft's dial-up program would detect that i have an old version of msn messenger and keep trying to update it. anyways, i'm guessing that the "mysterious transfer" was just the attempted update of microsoft messenger. i kept putting a stop to it by clicking "no." after installing it, microsoft's dial-up prog no longer tries to update it for me, thus the mysterious transfer went away
did that make sense? i know it's kinda long but uhhh, yep 
hm, just in case, i'm scanning for virii one more time
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