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Author: Subject: Mystery access to laptop - how??

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  posted on 5/9/06 at 14:38

A colleague found a series or dodgy websites (html files, graphics) on his Temp Internet folder at a time when he was at work. Access was for about 40 minutes.

He lives alone but left his laptop on at home. The laptop has an active wireless card but no wireless internet connection. The Windows firewall setting was off and the laptop runs Windows XP

His home is in the middle of a number of access points with at least one with no security on it.

How is it possible that these websites appeared on his drive? The websites were all from one site. I have ruled out time changes on the clock

I am at a loss to explain it. Hope someone can!

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