"Device connected to channel 2"

[Globaliser]

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.

[E-Liam]

Hi Globaliser,

It does sound fishy.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Device+connected+to+channel+2%22

Only two hits for that message you got, both from the same page on different sites.

Have you got anything running in task manager that you don't recognise? Here's a couple of tools that search a bit deeper in your machine. Try these and see if they find anything. Download and update them, then just run as you would any AV.

Swatit (http://swatit.org/download.html)

TDS3 (http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=download)

They're both free and very good at what they do. The last time I used Swatit, it did take a while to run, but just leave it going in the background. Still no guarantee there is anything to find, but it won't hurt to check more thoroughly. :ok:

Cheers

Liam

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

Globaliser,

I would also follow the guide in the thread:

Guide for Eliminating Spyware, Adware, and Random Popups (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117136)

To make sure you do not have any extra pests in your computer.

Take Care,

Richard

[amanoffewwords]

Do you have a cordless mouse or keyboard - 'cause that message appears on my logitech every once in a while. prolly when the radio contact is broken/repaired.

[Globaliser]

amanoffewwords: Do you have a cordless mouse or keyboard - 'cause that message appears on my logitech every once in a while. prolly when the radio contact is broken/repaired. Bingo! Yes, I'm using a Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo. That must be it.

But I've got Liam's and Richard's suggestions downloaded and printed already too, so I will go home and have a go at those just in case.

Many, many thanks!

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

Nice going amanoffewwords!

Well done! :ok:

Richard