Our Dell Vostro V13 laptop keeps telling us that there's a WiFi network called dcuc160 which it successfully connects to, unfortunately it doesn't actually work.
This network appears wherever we are, even in Belgium on our boat and at home where there aren't any neighbours in wireless range so I don't think it's any sort of real network.
How can we get rid of it as it's a right pain. I've searched for dcuc160 on Google and got just one hit for "Duelund Coherent Audio CAST inductors homepage", not relevant!
Possibly related to this perhaps?
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/10/11/1738257/Why-You-See-Free-Public-Wi...
Good old bug in Windows XP. Maybe the first time your pooter tried to connect to this viral network it was called dcuc160, and now every time it sees another it still thinks it's dcuc160. Don't know where network manager keeps its settings but maybe if you found out and purged them perhaps??
Rgds,
Martin
On 31 October 2010 16:01, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
Our Dell Vostro V13 laptop keeps telling us that there's a WiFi network called dcuc160 which it successfully connects to, unfortunately it doesn't actually work.
This network appears wherever we are, even in Belgium on our boat and at home where there aren't any neighbours in wireless range so I don't think it's any sort of real network.
How can we get rid of it as it's a right pain. I've searched for dcuc160 on Google and got just one hit for "Duelund Coherent Audio CAST inductors homepage", not relevant!
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Unlikely - Chris is using Mutt, which suggests to me he's not been using Windows. That's not to say, of course, that his niggle has no connection with a viral network.
Didn't mean he had been using windows. I see these wifi networks all the time on my travels and I don't run windows either.
Rgds,
Martin
Martin Collins wrote:
Possibly related to this perhaps?
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/10/11/1738257/Why-You-See-Free-Public-Wi...
Good old bug in Windows XP. Maybe the first time your pooter tried to connect to this viral network it was called dcuc160, and now every time it sees another it still thinks it's dcuc160. Don't know where network manager keeps its settings but maybe if you found out and purged them perhaps??
Unlikely - Chris is using Mutt, which suggests to me he's not been using Windows. That's not to say, of course, that his niggle has no connection with a viral network.
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 09:46:59PM +0000, Martin Collins wrote:
Unlikely - Chris is using Mutt, which suggests to me he's not been using Windows. That's not to say, of course, that his niggle has no connection with a viral network.
Didn't mean he had been using windows. I see these wifi networks all the time on my travels and I don't run windows either.
Explicitly deleting dcuc160 from the list of 'hidden' wireless networks seems to have made it go away. So the idea that it was picked up from a rogue 'virtual' windows WiFi could well be right.
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