Dialer Madness

[TimTang]

I've got three different works stations (Windows2K Pro)in three different locations all of which are the Internet sharing station for a small office. In the last week or so each of them have contracted a auto dialer somehow.

I've tried Spybot, Ad-aware, Regclean, SuperCleaner, WinsockFix, AGP, and Trendmicro. I still can't get rid of it.

Is there any way I can tell what is fireing up the modem in the first place, so I can track it down and eliminate it.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

 

[bcastner]

So my FAQ faq608-4650 failed you.

Sorry.

Three different ICS hosts on three seperate locations are randomly dialing. What a pain.

1. Stop the autdial service.
Right click My computer, Manage, Services and select Applications/Services. In the right pane scroll down to "Remote Access Auto Connection Manager" and double click it. Set the Startup type to Disabled, and stop the Service.

2. Adjust network connections
Network Connections/Advanced/Dial-Up Preferences/Enable Auto-Dial by Location/Uncheck "all locations" and check "Always ask me before Auto-Dialing."

3. Tray icons and Notification area
Right-click any notification tray icon for an option to disable or not start at startup. Most can be removed from here: Start/Run/Regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

4. Disable Automatic Modem Connections at Startup

If remote connections are enabled in Windows, the system may try to initiate an Internet connection at Windows startup or at the start of many applications. This setting disables that behavior.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
Value Name: EnableRemoteConnect
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: "Y" = enable automatic connections, "N" = disabled.

Create a new String value, or modify the existing value, called 'EnableRemoteConnect' and edit the value according to the settings above. Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

5. Modify the Internet Auto-Dial Settings

Windows has the option to automatically dial your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to establish an Internet connection. This option can be controlled using this tweak.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

Create a new binary value named "EnableAutodial", and set the new value to equal "01 00 00 00" to enable autodial or "00 00 00 00" to disable it.

Note: This restriction can be used either on a user by user basis by adding it to HKEY_CURRENT_USER or on a computer wide basis by adding it to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

6. Adjust Autodial settings
To view the list of names and addresses recorded by AutoDial, type the following command at a command prompt: rasautou -s
To delete a name or address entry from the list: Start/Run/Regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RAS Autodial\Addresses

You can delete any TCP/IP addresses that you see under this key. Note that AutoDial can use IP addresses, DNS fully qualified domain names (FQDN), and NetBIOS names.

7. How to make auto-disconnect work in Internet explorer

Start/Run/Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

In the right pane, find Autodisconnect and change the time accordingly. Alternately You can try this from command prompt: net config server /autodisconnect:30 -to set the autodisconnect value.