Ottawa Canada Dear Simon:
Wow your friend certainly has some problems with her telephone bill. If your friend thinks her BrailleNote is dialling out when it shouldn't, the simplest thing to do is just disconnect the telephone line cord from the BrailleNote. Unplugging the BrailleNote would not prove much as it has a rechargeable battery. No, the unit has no firewall or anti-virus program. It only has wireless connectivity when a wireless CF card is inserted into the unit and wireless connectivity has been selected from the options menu. Far as I know, the BrailleNote is not designed to connect to the Internet to download updates etc by itself. Try having your friend's ISP check their login and logout records to see if they agree with the telephone company's call log records. If they don't, then someone who has the same ISP has politely helped themselves to your friend's telephone line. Beware of things like cordless telephones connected to the line, as older models do not verify you are using the handset that came with the base unit and there are people who will wander around with a cordless handset turned on just trying to get dial tone. But when they get it, they typically phone their friends overseas and rack up incredible bills for the owner of the line. The BrailleNote uses Windows CE so I suppose it could be attacked by viruses that will run on that platform. Never heard of this before. Good luck. Brian -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/434 - Release Date: 30/08/2006 ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
