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The PC Fairies
Nov. 21st, 2008 10:49 pmYes, I have them. Or something similar.
At various times during the last week, I noticed that my PC, which is upstairs in the spare bedroom/office has been on either in the evening, or when I got home from work. Initially, I just thought I'd left it on, or that one of the kids had switched it on or something.
But yesterday morning, I got up - and it was on. I switched it off. When I got home from work, it was on again. And I know nobody had fiddled with it, because the kids had been out all day, and were still out.
I came home today - it was on again, and in the process of turning itself off. Later, I wanted to use it for something, so I put it on, and then when I went back about 20 minutes later, it had obviously gone off and was starting up again. After that, I unplugged it, because it was literally switching itself on and off every few seconds.
So - WTF? Has anything like this happened to anyone else?
I have Kaspersky security on there, which is pretty good, I think. Both drives are fairly full, and apart from MS Office and Media Player, I have VLC, MSN, AIM, some e-book readers and Bit-Comet on there. I used to have a lot more, but I got rid of quite a bit when I had a new drive a while back.
This has started happening very recently, and I've not put any new programmes on for a while, other than the updates that come automatically from Microsoft. (That PC runs XP).
My Dad's going to have a look at it over the weekend, but I thought I'd ask if anyone out there has any ideas or similar experiences?
At various times during the last week, I noticed that my PC, which is upstairs in the spare bedroom/office has been on either in the evening, or when I got home from work. Initially, I just thought I'd left it on, or that one of the kids had switched it on or something.
But yesterday morning, I got up - and it was on. I switched it off. When I got home from work, it was on again. And I know nobody had fiddled with it, because the kids had been out all day, and were still out.
I came home today - it was on again, and in the process of turning itself off. Later, I wanted to use it for something, so I put it on, and then when I went back about 20 minutes later, it had obviously gone off and was starting up again. After that, I unplugged it, because it was literally switching itself on and off every few seconds.
So - WTF? Has anything like this happened to anyone else?
I have Kaspersky security on there, which is pretty good, I think. Both drives are fairly full, and apart from MS Office and Media Player, I have VLC, MSN, AIM, some e-book readers and Bit-Comet on there. I used to have a lot more, but I got rid of quite a bit when I had a new drive a while back.
This has started happening very recently, and I've not put any new programmes on for a while, other than the updates that come automatically from Microsoft. (That PC runs XP).
My Dad's going to have a look at it over the weekend, but I thought I'd ask if anyone out there has any ideas or similar experiences?
