Self dial up

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 11/12/03 

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:07:39 -0800

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I'm running Windows XP Prof. and use a modem dial up for
the internet. I
>have good virus protection that is updated every few
days.
>
>Every week or so (not exactly regularly), I find my
computer has connected
>itself to the internet in the early hours of the morning
and I arrive at my
>desk to find it still on-line and some 3 hrs plus of
dial-up time ticking
>over. I can find no obvious programme that is demanding
up-dates or such
>like. And there seems to be minimal exchange of data if
any (just a few K).
>Outlook and Outlook Express only dial up when asked (no
automatic email
>retrieval is set)
>
>Are there any .log files that I can access to see what
instigated the
>dial-up? When I did a search for '.log' this morning
there was one log that
>showed up in Windows/System32 with a suitable 5:38 am
time stamp, but it was
>unaccessible via notepad and did'nt show up in Windows
Explorer. I went back
>to check the name for this email, but it has now
disappeared (I think the
>very act of trying to open it removed it from the seach
list). There is
>nothing in userenv.log overnight. How can I view
the 'unviewable' .logs?
>
>Any help would be useful - I am a competent user, but
not up to burrowing
>around the registry!
>
>Thanks
>
>Jack Ogden
>
>
>Do you have a third party firewall? Most will log things
of this nature.
>
>.
>

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