I'll bet that what happened is this....
Without realizing it it,
you mistakenly hit Alt+D when you meant to hit Shft+D.
(Are your Alt keys directly below the right-hand/left-hand
of the Shft keys)
l_|----| |----|_r
e_|Shft| |Shft|_i
f_|----| |----|_g
t_ |---| |-------------------------| |---| _h
_ |Alt| | Space bar | |Alt| _t
s_ |---| |-------------------------| |---| _s
i i
d d
e e
(as you can see... it would be quite easy for the finger to slip off of
the Shft key and hit the Alt key by mistake)
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:33:06 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood 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
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