In a message dated 10/08/2003 6:25:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< This has happened to me twice. In the middle of the night the PC
suddenly turns on and wakes me up. Scares the heck out of me. I turn
it off immediately. I have antivirus and a firewall security package.
Testing shows no point of entry and no sign of any usage by an outside
source. I swear its possessed! Any ideas???
  >>
Its possible your motherboard has a 'wake-on-LAN' setting
that turns it on if one of your other computers has some
kind of activity and they're connected as a local area network.
Maybe a pet is surfing while you sleep.... you know how cats
are with 'mice' they do like to play with them...
Dennis Dittmar
Maspeth NY

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