Matt, Thank you, thank you, thank you. It is so nice to realize that others have similar problems. Especially when they provide possible solutions. It's too soon to tell if my computer has been controlled, however I am very hopeful.
Again thanks, Anne On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 11:36 PM, estate wrote: > I found this website helpful: > > http://homepage.mac.com/xapplimatic/Xoftware/DialupControl.html > > matt > --- Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> wrote: >> Nelson, >> >> I'm glad I'm not the only one having problems. However I don't have >> any >> kids to solve my problems. Also I'm using Apple's Mail and I can't >> find >> anything in Mail's Preferences that would do this. I don't think. >> >> Anne >> >> On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 10:41 PM, Nelson Helm wrote: >> >>> Anne Cartwright wrote: >>> >>>> My computer is doing it again. It automatically dials up an Internet >>>> connection. It was doing fine until about half an hour ago when it >>>> started dialing. Luckily I was on the phone and heard the telltale >>>> clicking. >>>> >>>> I checked the only place I know for automatic dialing: >>>> >>>> System Preferences>Network>Show [Internal Modem] (normally this is >>>> set to AirPort)>PPP>PPP Options: >>>> >>>> "Connect automatically when needed" was not checked. >>>> "Disconnect if idle for 10 minutes" is checked. >>>> >>>> Neither of these seems to work, if I understand what they are >>>> supposed to do. >>> >>> That happened to me, too. >>> My kid (age 28) fixed it, and I can't tell you just what he did, >>> but it was Internet Explorer doing something like trying to finish a >>> download >>> or trying to check web sites to which I had "subscribed" (asked it to >>> check automatically), >>> after being disconnected in the middle of a download. >>> >>> Nelson Helm >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
