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| 236101 | 2004-05-13 05:38:00 | Our computer has developed a mind of its own - it dials up the internet at about 20 minute intervals with out being asked. I guess a setting has been changed somewhere but I'm not familiar enough with them to know which one. Is there someone who can help? | wendy (5057) | ||
| 236102 | 2004-05-13 06:00:00 | A good start would be to download and install the programs Adaware and Spybot S&D (Search and destroy) and run those to clear out any spyware that may be lurking in your computer and trying to dial home. Both programs are free, very easy to use and can be found with a quicj search on Google. That will identify and get rid of any diallers you may have accumulated. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 236103 | 2004-05-13 06:40:00 | If you have your mail program open when it happens it might be set to check for new mail every 20 mins. You can isolate this possibility by making sure your mail program is closed and see if it still occurs. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 236104 | 2004-05-13 07:22:00 | A firewall will also detect what is trying to call home. Do you have one installed? It is certainly a must-have these days. If you already have a firewall installed, and it doesn't bring up any alerts about new programs trying to access the net, it might be one of the programs that already has permission to access the internet. One way of pin-pointing the culprit, is to go into the configuration of the firewall, and set it that all current programs must ask for permission first again. Wait for 20 mins or so, and then see which one gives the alert. A down-side to this, is that you will have to give permission again to all your programs which are allowed access to the internet. Try the other posted suggestions first to see whether that fixes it. :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 236105 | 2004-05-13 08:30:00 | Checked connections under internet options? | Growly (6) | ||
| 236106 | 2004-05-13 08:51:00 | Hi Wendy In the light of my later post on Spybot, I'd place more reliance on Adaware at present, though Spybot will still pick up older issues. I hadn't started that job at the time of my previous post in this thread. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 236107 | 2004-05-13 09:05:00 | Get Spybot 1.3 from here (forums.net-integration.net) It's running very nicely and should do a good job when run along with adaware. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
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