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Old 29th June 2004 | 16:42
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Globaliser
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"Device connected to channel 2"

I wonder if the resident experts might be able to shed some light on this for me.

I was surfing the Internet at home last night - dialup via AOL, Win XP Pro, IE 6 - and I thought I detected a slow down in transfer rates for about 10 or 15 seconds.

A couple of minutes later, a small message window (not Messenger Service, more like an error message/alert dialog box) popped up, saying "Device connected to channel 2", with only a click box marked OK. When I pressed that, it just disappeared.

Ever suspicious, I killed the AOL software and got the modem jack out of the wall straight away, then ran Spybot, AdAware and Norton Antivirus, with all negative results.

Questions: Is there anything left to worry about? If so, what should I do about it?

Many thanks in advance.
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