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From: "Bruce Evans" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT: wireless network
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 09:00:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20041203180424.0491a908@pop.compuserve.com>


I doubt it's from your neighbor. Infra-red is a line of sight transmission.
Most wireless networds are WiFi and a few are Bluetooth. If your laptop is
attached to the electricity system, it's possibly the neighbor is using a
system using the apartment wiring, it could come over. The other two
possibilities are that you have a virus or, if you have an offlease or
refurbished laptop that some program was left on it.

Bruce

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Bruce Evans, M.D.
Family Physician and Technical Writer

"Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration."


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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 6:12 PM
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Subject: [TMG] OT: wireless network


Sorry about sending yet another off-topic computer message, but...

Apparently one of my neighbors has set up a wireless, presumably infrared,
network in her apartment, because suddenly my laptop has taken to
displaying an infrared icon that assures me "Kristen is in range." Haven't
got the faintest idea who Kristen is.

The only thing I could find to do under Properties was to uncheck the
option that others could send files to me via infrared, and to set the
controller to "disabled". I still keep seeing the icon that this person is
in range.

Does anyone know whether there is anything else I need to do to protect my
system? My neighbor is probably a harmless grad student, but you never know.

Karla Huebner



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