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    Home Seer with Dial Up

    My weekend house is in a remote location with no high speed access, so I use DNS to go to establish a connection at conventient times to change parameters and send status update e-mails to myself during the week. Strangely, recently the e-mails routinely stop and DNS to go is not able to dial up because some other applications on my computer are trying to access the dial up connection. I return for the weekend to find the screen hung up on waiting for somebody to enter a password to access the dial up connection. Things had worked great for a long time and now they don't. I have been unable to determine which application is trying to access the internet. When I leave the house on Sunday I leave only Homeseer and Outlook express running, but clearly there is something running in the background that is causing problems. I have turned off automatic updates for Windows (I run it manually each weekend). I have Norton Antivirus installed but have disabled Live Updates and run it manually on the weekends.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,

    S. Garman

    #2
    Are you sure Microsoft automatic updates are off? I try to keep automatic updates off, but often, after I've done a manual update, it's back on. I only find this out when I see the "Windows Update Agent"/"Software Sync" error in the window's System Event log.

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      #3
      There are some options that are enabled when you select your dialup folder and I seem to remember one of the options to dial up with out user interaction. Anyone else remember this?
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        #4
        I had the same problem and found the culprit to be internet explorer. Check your settings in Tools>Internet Options>Connections, and set it up to "Never to dial". This might be it.

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          #5
          Ah ha. It could be one of those adware "things" automatically popping up an IE window which in turn causes IE to attempt to dial up. I just helped a friend who aquired one of the ad virus's that would pop-up a web page at all hours of the night and it play really loud music.
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