Please help. Something is invoking dial-up.

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Charlie

Can someone please tell me what's going on. I have two machines connected
with a switch, both running Windows XP Home. File and print sharing work
fine. Each machine access the Internet using dial-up independently without
ICS. Periodically one machine will automatically dial up and connect to my
ISP. I cannot figure out what is invoking the dial-up. I do not know of any
programs that are trying to access the Internet. Is there a way to determine
which program is doing this? Does anyone have any suggestions? Please help.
 
Charlie said:
Can someone please tell me what's going on. I have two machines connected
with a switch, both running Windows XP Home. File and print sharing work
fine. Each machine access the Internet using dial-up independently without
ICS. Periodically one machine will automatically dial up and connect to my
ISP. I cannot figure out what is invoking the dial-up. I do not know of any
programs that are trying to access the Internet. Is there a way to determine
which program is doing this? Does anyone have any suggestions? Please help.
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Well, not sure if this will help, but in IE, internet options, connections,
do you have "never dial connection" checked? Look at both computers.
 
Charlie said:
Can someone please tell me what's going on. I have two machines connected
with a switch, both running Windows XP Home. File and print sharing work
fine. Each machine access the Internet using dial-up independently without
ICS. Periodically one machine will automatically dial up and connect to my
ISP. I cannot figure out what is invoking the dial-up. I do not know of any
programs that are trying to access the Internet. Is there a way to determine
which program is doing this? Does anyone have any suggestions? Please help.
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If you install a firewall, this should tell you what is going on.
 
Well, not sure if this will help, but in IE, internet options, connections,
do you have "never dial connection" checked? Look at both computers.
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It sounds like he's got a trojan horse. On a system with an internet
connection and no firewall or spyware detector, The first run of
something like Spybot Search & Destroy or Ad-Aware may yield shocking
news.
 
I would suggest that you install a firewall usch as zone alarm (they do a
free version - www.zonelabs.com) XP's firewall doesn't monitor outgoing
traffic only incoming traffic so this is of no real use. Also download
copies of Ad-Aware (www.lavasoft.com) and Spybot search and destroy
(www.safer-networking.org) and run both of these to check for spyware. You
say it is dialing your ISP. Is this all that happens? Is your pc connecting
to and showing your default webpage. It isn't displaying any porn web sites?
Spybot is particularly good with phone dialer software so, like steven said
in an earlier post, you may be surprised at what spybot turns up.
 
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