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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
Sounds like the modem has ended up with an IP address in the unregistered range for some reason in which case it only has a 1 hour long lease and there's no need at all to switch it off for 3 days.
A call to tech support is a good plan to try and figure out why the modem has apparently become unregistered.
Malware is highly, highly unlikely. A postcode and surname is hardly worth writing a nasty to steal.
Mr Crawford - the 3 day shut down suggestion was a brave but ultimately futile attempt to get the DHCP lease on the modem to expire.
EDIT: Unregistered modems can ping IIRC so the bbc.co.uk test is a waste of time as it'll just hit the registration server instead.
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mmm i never suggest the 3day shutdown so dnt talk down to me like i have said something wrong, and i think you need to go do some checks malware do what hte user is reporting.