Martin Collins wrote:
Possibly related to this perhaps?
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/10/11/1738257/Why-You-See-Free-Public-Wi...
Good old bug in Windows XP. Maybe the first time your pooter tried to connect to this viral network it was called dcuc160, and now every time it sees another it still thinks it's dcuc160. Don't know where network manager keeps its settings but maybe if you found out and purged them perhaps??
Unlikely - Chris is using Mutt, which suggests to me he's not been using Windows. That's not to say, of course, that his niggle has no connection with a viral network.