Re: Strange modem behavior

From: Annlis (Ann@Yahoo.com)
Date: 03/15/03 

From: "Annlis" <Ann@Yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 03:43:28 +0100

It might be something else on your computer? Do you have a firewall or anything else that stop intruders?
Try to download AdAware from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ and run it. It detects any intruders you might have.

Annlis.

"James" <twelveoaks@juno.com> wrote in message news:06fa01c2ea95$70802c30$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I was walking by the living room where my computer is
> kept and heard the modem inexplicably dialing. Wondering
> how and why it would try to dial out without my
> interaction, I walked up to it and clicked the cancel
> button. It tried again. I clicked cancel again. Repeat
> two more times. Ran Norton to see if I had a virus
> trying to dial out. Norton found nothing. Any other
> idea's on how and why this happened? Very disconcerting.
> Is there a Microsoft file that keeps a log of modem
> activity? I'm running Windows XP on an emachine T1100,
> if that helps. I keep my updates up-to-date. Any help
> would be appreciated.

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