I thought that at a couple of places but when I asked if the kids might have the answer was no. So I left it at that. The others there are no kids. And when I went to a couple of places the thin layer of dust indicated it hadn't been touched in a while.
And living near Phoenix, Arizona this time of year the heat issue was discussed but none of them were warm or hot. So I kind of dismissed heat being a factor. But I have worked on two different Sony Media PCs that are a few years old that were having hard drive issues. Both computers I had to replace Maxtor drives. They were so hot I could barely hold them. Did the freezer trick with both of them and copied all the files off so the owners were happy about that. It's just been a strange week around here with a lot of weird things people asking me to fix. -----Original Message----- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: consumer routers resetting to default Chris, I don't know if it is just me but those articles are very badly written and offer no links or data to back up the claims? Art, a long shot [considering the number of calls you made in two weeks] but could it not be related to heat or bored children pressing the reset microswitch for long enough to return to default settings? -- Peter van Houten On the 26/06/2009 22:54, Christopher Nicholson wrote the following: > /See half way down through this link:/ > > / / > > /http://www.freeantivirushelp.com/antivirus_security_updates/antivirus_exploit_router/trend_micro_exploit_router_exploit.html/ > > / / > > / / > > /Thank you in advance./ > > * * > > */Chris Nicholson/* > > /Lead, Delivery Services/ > > /IT Delivery Services > /*/SHAW/**/ ) /*/Communications/ > (: (403) 716-6527 > > Cell:(403) 470-9816 > Fax: (403) 781-4965 > * *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>* > > *ACCOUNTABLE ** BALANCE** ** CUSTOMER FOCUSED** ** INTEGRITY ** LOYALTY > ** POSITIVE, CAN DO ATTITUDE** **TEAM PLAYER*** > > * * > > */“There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand > binary, and those who don’t”/* > > / / > > *From:* Art DeKneef [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2009 2:25 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: consumer routers resetting to default > > That’s what I was thinking after the fourth one. Some new thing that was > working its way around. Three of them I set up and have remote > management disabled, WPA2 configured with a long passphrase, long admin > password (16 characters), all the good stuff that we all do. It made me > wonder what was going on. > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2009 12:04 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: consumer routers resetting to default > > That’s odd, all right. Can’t say as I’ve had that happen to me before… > Wonder if maybe there’s some new “exploit” for routers of a certain > chipset? I know that whenever I flash a Linksys WRT with DD-WRT, it > reminds you to make some changes to make it more difficult to hack > (things such as disabling remote management, etc.) By any chance did > these routers have remote management enabled? > > John-AldrichTile-Tools > > *From:* Art DeKneef [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2009 12:29 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* OT: consumer routers resetting to default > > Thought I would ask and see if others have experienced this. > > During the past two weeks I have had customers call and ask them to help > them with getting their Internet access working again at their house. In > the five cases that I have seen all of the routers have been reset to > default. All are made by Linksys, are different models, wireless, had > been setup with security and working fine for over a year. After > entering the information again the clients can access the Internet fine. > > Seems strange to me that would happen to this many devices within a > relative short period of time. > > Thanks > > Art > > > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.12.92/2203 - Release Date: > 06/26/09 05:53:00 > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
