Comp turns itself on....Why? How ?

[steve2000x]

I looked at the event viewer - bunch of stuff i don't understand

Comp turned itself on at 12:27 this morning - it was at the log in screen when i got up this morning so it was on about 6 hours.

Event log also shows same on May 8, same time.

I haven't set it to do this.

How can i figure out exactly what is going on?

 

[jackschmittusa]

Wake on lan, modem set?

 

[steve2000x]

Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
Wake on lan, modem set?

Where do i find the setting for these ?

 

[PCdruggy]

I believe it in the bios. It should have an option to disable the wake on lan setting.

 

[steve2000x]

Originally posted by: PCdruggy
I believe it in the bios. It should have an option to disable the wake on lan setting.

Your're right - I'll make sure it's ticked off

in fact sometime ago when i built this computer it was definitely off

How would it get turned on ?

And what program needs access after midnight. ?

 

[dclive]

That's one possibility; another is that the machine is being told to turn itself on by an application, so do a spyware scan (www.microsoft.com/antispyware), and also check the BIOS for a power-on time (many BIOSs offer this feature as well).

 

[JSFLY]

Ghost in the Machine.

 

[steve2000x]

Originally posted by: dclive
That's one possibility; another is that the machine is being told to turn itself on by an application, so do a spyware scan (www.microsoft.com/antispyware), and also check the BIOS for a power-on time (many BIOSs offer this feature as well).

In bios the power on settings were wake on Lan - off, power up by modem - off

but automatic power on had been set to 00:27 every day. Not by me that i can remember. I'm the sole user of this comp.

I did the ms antispware MS Defender install and update - scan came up with nothing.

one other suspicious thing - my start menu has a couple strange entries:



http://members.cox.net/fiesta20001/screencap


so i dunno

 

[boomerang]

You're referring to the series of squares I assume?