Virus killing my router?

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The last couple of days my netgear rp614 router has needed to be powered
down for me to get back on the cable network. I have since updated to the
latest firmware and it seems to help...Question...is there a virus that can
cause my router settings to drop?
OP: WinXP Pro
Cable
thanks
 
The last couple of days my netgear rp614 router has needed to be
powered down for me to get back on the cable network. I have since
updated to the latest firmware and it seems to help...Question...is
there a virus that can cause my router settings to drop?
OP: WinXP Pro
Cable
thanks
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NO!

Duane :)
 
The last couple of days my netgear rp614 router has needed to be powered
down for me to get back on the cable network. I have since updated to the
latest firmware and it seems to help...Question...is there a virus that can
cause my router settings to drop?
OP: WinXP Pro
Cable
thanks
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No. Your router has a 10/100 switch that is supposed to auto synchronize. The
problem is most likely caused by your cable modem, which usually has a 10/BaseT
ethernet port. Due to problems that occur on the cable network, your modem may
occasionally fail to synchonize properly with the 10/100 WAN port. Resetting
either the modem or the router, or simply unplugging the ethernet cable and
plugging it back in, will force a resync.

J.A. Coutts
 
John said:
****************** REPLY SEPARATER ********************
No. Your router has a 10/100 switch that is supposed to auto synchronize. The
problem is most likely caused by your cable modem, which usually has a 10/BaseT
ethernet port. Due to problems that occur on the cable network, your modem may
occasionally fail to synchonize properly with the 10/100 WAN port. Resetting
either the modem or the router, or simply unplugging the ethernet cable and
plugging it back in, will force a resync.

J.A. Coutts
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only thing could be kids doing ping attacks as possilbe source would be
a first I have heard of a virus doing that.
 
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