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Can a DSL modem be infected or is it just the ISP?
Posted by idiotsam (more from idiotsam) on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:59:13
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Last week, I got a virus warning when looking at a museum website (not porn!). Since then, the computer is very slow even after a virus scan, safe mode start up and resetting to previous settings (forgot the lingo of what that's called). Today, I hooked up a laptop to the same DSL modem and it is slow. The laptop is fast afterwards using a different internet connection.
With the first computer, webpages loaded in about 5 seconds, now it takes 20 seconds to 5 minutes. The modem speed is around 2 kb/second which (I think) is slower than what it should be (5-10kb/sec?). The laptop (2nd computer) hooked up to this confirmed the speed but is at 100kb/s with a cable modem.
I know I'm an idiot but is the problem that the first computer is irreversibly infected and the modem is slow (2 problems) or is there anything in the modem that can be sabotaged by viruses?
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