timJ wrote:
> AlanP expounded thusly:
>
>> Richard S. Westmoreland wrote:
>>
>>> "timJ" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>
>>>> Looking for a way to see what's starting the dialer every couple
>>>> of days on my 98se box, and connecting to my ISP. ZoneAlarm log
>>>> doesn't show anything outgoing, AVG and SpyBot find nothing. No
>>>> apps have auto update enabled. It's been going on for about 2
>>>> weeks now. Any reason to suspect Real or QuickTime, which were
>>>> recently updated? Just grabbed FileMon and will leave that
>>>> running to see if I can catch it. Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>>
>>> Could possibly be an update triggering the dialup of your default
>>> connection. Live Update, Windows Update, etc.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>
>>
>> Might even be ZoneAlarm updating itself...
>
>
> Looks like that's it. FileMon showed the dialer starting right after
> ZoneAlarm activity so I switched to Sygate PF and the problem stopped.
> Any other tools I could have used to better catch what was going on?
>
> It was ZA 5.1, BTW. Is it common knowledge that, even with auto update
> turned off, and no messages coming up, that it will try to connect and
> even dial up your ISP itself? Until I caught it (it doesn't hang up
> when it's done), I had my dialup connect set to "connect automatically"
> figuring that my firewall would handle any problems - heh.
>
> -tj
It might have a 'resolve address' option where it converts an IP
(64.4.33.7 for example) to a human-readable address (
www.hotmail.com).
To do this it will need to dial out and contact a DNS server
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