For those that like puzzlers
May. 25th, 2004 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lionkingcmslI am sitting at my computer, surfing the net, and my fax machine rings with an incoming call.
Now this is weird as the fax machine and the computer share the same phone line and obviously the line is being used by the computer.
The fax machine answers, but there is nothing there. No surprise there. Then the computer dumps its connection. This has happened about four times before I unplugged the phone line from the fax machine.
So I'm left to ponder, is this a virus that is trying to get into my computer, but Zone Alarm is blocking it and the fax machine sees it as a legit call and tries to intercept?
Anyone have any idea how the fax machine can "see" an incoming call when the line is already being used for an out going call by a totally different machine.
Before you ask, I do not have call waiting on this line.
Now this is weird as the fax machine and the computer share the same phone line and obviously the line is being used by the computer.
The fax machine answers, but there is nothing there. No surprise there. Then the computer dumps its connection. This has happened about four times before I unplugged the phone line from the fax machine.
So I'm left to ponder, is this a virus that is trying to get into my computer, but Zone Alarm is blocking it and the fax machine sees it as a legit call and tries to intercept?
Anyone have any idea how the fax machine can "see" an incoming call when the line is already being used for an out going call by a totally different machine.
Before you ask, I do not have call waiting on this line.
