virus, possibly (him/her, not you)

Subject: virus, possibly (him/her, not you)
Name: ludicrous
Date: 3/9/2002 11:16:10 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 138.67.58.188
In Reply to: Well, it stopped. posted by Ben
Message:

some of those viruses that caused so much trouble a while back would do nothing but port scans on random IP addresses, and if the user wasn't running up-to-date antivirus software, he/she would never know about it.

How does your modem's "standby" option work? Do you mean that you disconnected it entirely? If not, then it would still be receiving data from your ISP, even if it wouldn't handle any outbound requests from you.