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Name: dolph
Date: May 22, 2006 at 11:20:24 Pacific
Subject: Web browsing stops 8 pm every day
OS: win xp sp2
CPU/Ram: p IV 2.6 MHz, 256 RAM
Comment:

Hi. Please help:

Have a 6 PCs LAN working fine, ADSL line for Internet. Shared by router. Suddenly, a week ago Internet-Explorer stops the Web browsing every day at 8 pm, in all machines (however, the surfing with Opera or Firefox go correctly).
The case is annoying and I can not fix the problem because don“t know why occur this.
Can somebody gave an idea??

Thanks


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Response Number 1
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: May 22, 2006 at 11:26:54 Pacific
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Is this in an office or at home?
If it's in an office, they could be using something like
http://www.privacywindows.com/wptool/index.html
Or, is your firewall shutting IE down at a certain time?

Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks


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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: May 22, 2006 at 11:32:44 Pacific
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This parental control sets time limits also
http://www.winappslist.com/security/parental2.htm

So maybe someone installed this type of thing on your network?

Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks


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Response Number 3
Name: dolph
Date: May 22, 2006 at 11:55:33 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Thanks, XpUser4Real.

This is a home LAN. Windows Task Manager do not show any suspicious process...


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