Settings can be downloaded via TFTP as the GS supports auto-provisioning. My
guess is that you have set the tftp server entry unknowingly to europass's
server. They did have a service called Noodle, which went out of business
before it started.

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"Ian" <spam"AT"bathfordhill.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Paul D.Smith" <paul_d_smith@x-hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:42db928c$0$13702$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex. net...
> > > Ok, did you buy this set new? And when you programed it you set the
tftp
> > > server to 0.0.0.0 or an address on your network and changed the
> password.
> > > If not and you left the tftp server address in when it reboots it will
> > look
> > > for the tftp server and update settings as nesesary.
> > > To have "Hacked" it you would have needed port80 open and pointing at
> the
> > > phone..
> > > I very much doubt its been hacked.
> > >
> > > What is even odder is that europasstelecom dont seem to have launched
a
> > > service yet!!!! and it looks like a MLM scheme as well, so any type of
> > > advertising is good for dodgy agents.......even just getting the name
> > > outthere....
> > >
> >
> > But does upgrading the firmware loose all customer settings? Is there
no
> > facility for upgrading but restoring user configuration?
> >
> No. But settings can be part of the TFTP process, more info here
> http://tanesha.net/Wiki/GratissipTftpd.html. Personly this is the first
time
> I have heard of a GS being "hacked" and as I mentioned its strange that
the
> company mentioned doesnt have a service just a MLM scheme of types
running.
>
> Ian
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>