imported_Rugbee

I recently bought a new modem. The manufactures of my MODEM (http://www.2wire.com/?p=8) say that the computer is automatically connected to the internet (DSL) 24/7 and other then the monitor there is no need to turn it off the computer, they said to either turn the computer on stand by or hibernation. I never tried this before but once herd peps say that hibernating or putting a computer on stand by or hibernation was dangerous and allowed Key Loggers (what ever that is supposed to mean) to hack into your computer.
What is everybody’s opinion on this standby/ hibernation issue? I feel more secure now that I bought this new modem because it has a built in firewall, I would never attempted trying to hibernate the PC with the old one.

The Stoned Philosopher

IMO its rather useless, i usually turn it off.

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PsYcHoLoGiCaL

Its really only useful to conserve engery and that mostly applies to laptops because of their battery. I would turn it off, there isn't much point in having it turned on with a desktop. Standby and hibernation has nothing to do with a modem nor does it have anything to do with key loggers, so I don't know why they would tell you that.

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IGemini

Hibernation does not allow hacking because it saves all active information on the hard drive and turns the power off. Your computer can't be hacked unless your computer is on.

But hibernating is pretty useless. I haven't used it on either my desktop or laptop because they're always plugged in.

imported_Rugbee

I figured the same thing
however sometimes I go outside to smoke a bowl(usually takes an hour or so) and don’t want to turn the computer off because it has to go through the reboot process, which isn’t to bad but figured rebooting only made the system work harder, plus sometimes I’m just to anxious to wait for the pc to boot lol.
I am thinking about giving this stand by thing a shoot. When turning the computer on standby are you supposed to leave the monitor on or turn it off, I know, dumb question. It is just that every time I try to do different things with my computer the hard drive always blows up, so just thought I’d get a second opinion.

BloodNOil

Just leave it on.

My machine has been on DSL for about 6 months now. No hacks, unless you
count that one worm that made it through last time I formatted because I didn't
patch fast enough.

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