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    Spurious Keystrokes

    Hi all, Martin was spot on about it being a keyboard fault. On Dell's instructions I removed the keyboard (very easy), and with only an external keyboard connected there are no spurious keypresses. Dell is sending a new keyboard, so I don't need to mess around erasing data and sending the...
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    Spurious Keystrokes

    Hi kmcferrin, I didn't say that it *couldn't* have been attacked, merely that I would be surprised if it had been (and indeed I am now quite sure that it hasn't been). Obviously there is no such thing as a 100% guaranteed secure network or system but this one is, IMNSHO, pretty well secured...
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    Spurious Keystrokes

    Hi jjthird, Thanks for your reply. If it wasn't under warranty I would happily replace the keyboard myself. I've pulled Dell laptops apart to replace various parts in the past, even once a backlight tube, I'm sure replacing a keyboard has to be pretty easy. However, the earlier poster was, I...
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    Spurious Keystrokes

    Maybe so, although a customer of mine recently sent back a new Dell with a faulty motherboard and they did actually replace the motherboard and return the same machine. But I can't send them my confidential customer data anyway (especially if they are just gonna chuck it in a skip where anyone...
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    Spurious Keystrokes

    Hi Martin I suspect you are right, someone with previous experience of this symptom is what I hoped to find, so thank you. I'm throwing a huge battery of anti-malware resources at it, but nothing has been found yet. This doesn't surprise me really: it's my development machine, I don't use it...
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    Spurious Keystrokes

    Hi there, Thanks for replying. I hadn't considered malware because I regularly scan the computer with AVG Anti-spyware and Lavasoft Ad-aware. Also, the probem still occurs in safe mode. OTOH, the precise timing of once per second doesn't seem terribly likely for a hardware fault. I will try...
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    Spurious Keystrokes

    My Dell laptop (Win XP Pro) has been behaving erratically: pop-ups of various kinds closing before they can be read, windows opening behind the window they are opened from, jumping around unpredictably in dialog boxes and so on. Suspecting spurious mouse or keyboard events I knocked up a little...
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    Cannot establish IPSEC tunnel to D-Link DI-804HV

    Hi Lanrat, yes I've got it working. I have 4 VPN tunnels established all with different remote routers. The one that was causing me a problem was with a remote Netgear DG834 router (I have a lot of trouble with these) and I eventually got it working by enabling PFS at the Netgear end and...
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    Cannot establish IPSEC tunnel to D-Link DI-804HV

    Hi. I've just installed a D-Link DI-804HV router. It works fine for establishing IPSEC tunnels to remote sites, but it doesn't work the other way i.e. the same remote sites cannot initiate the tunnel. I have tried from several sites with several different routers and also Windows VPN clients...
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    Linking two VPN's

    OK, I guess I haven't given enough info. Here's some more detail: Home: DG834 router, 192.168.2.1 Office: DG834 router, 192.168.0.1 Customer: Dunno what router, subnet is 10.0.0.0 Home to office: no problem Office to customer: no problem Home to customer via office: how? Does it involve...
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    Linking two VPN's

    Here's the setup: At my office, I have a Netgear DG834 router that I use to establish site-to-site VPN's with some of my customers' networks. This works great. At my home, I also have a Netgear DG834 which I use to establish a site-to-site VPN to my office. Now, it strikes me that it ought...
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