Is it possible to download a virus from a satellite? A while back when they scambled NASA and ION, I now remember at that time having problems getting rid of any channel that I had in my list that came from E* 7. Today, having forgotten the problems of the past. I decided to try to see what might be on E* 7, I went to the installation menu of my Coolsat 6000 and noticed that the 119 position shows 00.0 Echostar 7 in the menu. So I go to the motor menu and change 00.0 to 119, input freq and sr and boom, green bars all the way across. I'm thinking this is great, I go to manual scan and hit OK and the thing goes blank,comes back on to RTV, the only other channels I had in. 2 more times and the same thing. So then I go to auto scan, hit OK and it goes blank again, comes back on to RTV. About this time I remember why I changed 119 to 00.0. When they scrambled NASA, ION, and whatever else was there, I had some sort of issue with my rx and I had a devil of a time deleting anything on 119, it didn't want to let me to do it, but I finally got rid of them and I was relieved to be rid of it. Well I forgot about the problems, and today when manual and auto scan failed, I went to blind scan, it began downloading channels and as soon as it was done, went blank again, and now just cycles off and on, shows the 1st chan downloaded momentarily, but the remote cannot operate or stop the constant on/off cycling. Killing the power of course stops the process until you snap it back on again. I can't prove it, but I think E* might have sent a virus of some kind back when they were scrambling NASA. It's strange that rx worked fine on the fta sats, but now doesn't work at all after downloading from E* 7, the same 1 I had problems with before. Do you think it's possible to have picked up a virus that way? E* had won a suit against the makers of Coolsat about that time, I wonder if this is something they could have done, although I know there will never be any way to prove it. Has anyone else had any type of issues like that? I can't get it to stay on long enough, it dosn't look likely that I will be able to reinstall the factory programming. I bought this rx new in box, it has never been anywhere near any pegleg software.
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