If that configuration you just listed doesn't include a firewall...,

There is a firewall in place, and apparently a pretty good one. I wish I were technically enough inclined to offer any kind of intelligent explanation of what our setup here is... I know that Steve Gibson's "Shields Up!" program (see here) gave our system the highest ranking for security).

Steve Gibson, for those who are not familiar, is the author of the world's best hard drive stress-testing and data recovery program, called "SpinRite". If you don't already have it, you should definitely look into it. You'll find links to SpinRite at the URL listed above.

I mentioned to our C.E. that someone had suggested a virus problem, and he is going to look into that possibility. Ummm... I seem to recall that the Code Red worm attacks only servers running IIS (Internet Information Services) software. We're not running that here, i.e., we're not hosting a website on the premises. Wouldn't IIS be pretty much an ISP thing?


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