Arachne might have gone and done something like
redialed...or you may have hit ALT+D by
accident...though I'm pretty sure you would end up as
"offline" before that would occur.
There is *one* possibility beyond the obvious
however...which is that someone send you the string
"+++ATDT[number]" - a common attack on
internet...stupid modems will receive commands from
anyone...sad really.
- W0rm
--- "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Arachnids:
>
> I have a very disconcerting experience to report.
>
> About 45 minutes ago I was online with Arachne. My
> online
> activities alternated among downloading my email,
> surfing
> the web, and composing email messages. As I was
> reviewing
> a recently composed email message in my outbox, I
> heard a
> dial tone from my modem. I knew instantly that this
> should
> not have happened because I was not accessing any
> modem
> program or function. In the lower right hand corner
> of my
> Arachne I could see in green uppercase letters
> TCP/IP. This
> indicated to me that I was still online even though
> I was
> hearing a dial tone from my modem. Then my modem
> started to
> dial, even though my Arachne indicated that I was
> still
> online. Even if I had temporarily lost the
> connection for
> some reason there is no program running on my
> computer that
> would automatically cause the modem to redial. I
> don't know
> what number my modem was dialing. No terminal
> screen
> appeared. I became afraid that my modem might
> connect with
> the Evil Empire and that control of my computer
> would suddenly
> be passed over Darth Vader, or even to somebody
> worse, like
> Bill Gates. I hit the panic button. That is the
> big
> pushbutton on the front of my computer that says
> "POWER".
> Pushed it in and it was OFF. Then I checked my
> phone and found
> that I had a normal dialtone as expected. After
> re-booting I
> ran Norton Disk Doctor. Everything OK. Then I ran
> F-PROT to
> scan my memory and my entire hard drive. No
> viruses. I have
> never had a problem like this before. I have an all
> DOS system
> and my modem has always been very well-behaved.
> What happened?
> Has anyone else on this list ever experienced a
> similar
> problem? Any recommendations as to what I should do
> if this
> should ever happen again?
>
> Help!
>
> Sam Heywood
>
> Sam Heywood
> -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne
> Browser - http://arachne.cz/
>
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