Self dial up

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Jack Ogden

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
 
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Guest

-----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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G

George

Jack,

Make sure that your computer is not set to Wake on modem
ring. Some hackers will use a dialer program to discover
computer modems for their use or it could be that you used
your line for FAX at one time and someone is sending one.
Hope this helps.

Thanx

George
 

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