Re: Strange modem behavior

From: James (twelveoaks@juno.com)
Date: 03/15/03 

From: "James" <twelveoaks@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:15:43 -0800

Thanks for the responses. No, I do not use Outlook and
have never even worked thru the set up. I use the Juno
software to access the internet thru their servers. I do
not have it set up to check without my interaction.

I thought that this was the first time that this has ever
happened, but my wife says it did it to her once. As
often as I leave the computer on, I am quite concerned
that this has happened before without my knowledge.

Any ideas on a setting that that would make it impossible
for my modem to dial out unless I instruct it?

Thanks
>-----Original Message-----
>Did you set outlook express to check for mail ever x
minutes and also tell
>it to establish a connection if there wasn't one?
>
>Annlis wrote:
>> 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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