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What’s hijacking this PC’s broadband connection?

Posted on December 13, 2020 at 21:10 CST by Fred Langa • Comment in the Forums

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By Fred Langa

A subscriber’s PC auto-connects to an unwanted, unknown, and very slow network — and nothing will set it right.

That included running Norton AV, resetting the network, changing ISPs, swapping routers, and even using different PCs — but no luck. So the machine’s owner suspected an active hack. Is it?

Plus: What’s the best tool for definitively checking any single file for malware?

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.49.0 (2020-12-14).

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