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More info?)
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:52:38 -0600, "D.Currie"
<dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>"Seafarer" <Seafarer@wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:42e13d87.319500@news.wanadoo.co.uk...
>> Hi
>> Got the new UK British Telecom privacy software installed and it
>> blocks all numbers that you have not agreed too.
>> Last two log ons it showed a dialler trying to diall with numbers 19
>> then 03.
>> They don't look like phone numbers to me but how do I know who they
>> are?for all I know it could be my anti-virus trying to check up.Is
>> there any way of checking?I'm obviously not going to allow a number I
>> have not agreed too.Just wondered.Thanks
>
>For those few of us outside the UK, it might be helpful if you explained
>exactly what this service is supposed to do. Otherwise the only people who
>will be able to give an answer are those who are familiar with the
>particular service you're using.
>
>For example, is this a phone service add-on, or is it part of your Internet
>service?
>Is it supposed to block incoming or outgoing calls?
>Where is this log that you checked found? Is it on your computer, or on some
>sort of phone device, or what?
>And what significance are 19 and 03, if any? Is that the whole thing that
>was allegedly dialed, or just the beginning numbers, or what?
>
>By the way, if your antivirus was trying to dial out, it wouldn't have its
>own special phone number, it would try to make a connection through whatever
>ISP you use. There's generally some sort of setting within the software
>where you tell it to only update when you're already online, or you can
>allow it to connect to your ISP independently.
>
>
thanks for any input,it is a service that British Telecom have
recently introduced[Free] it stops your computer dialling out numbers
that you have not agreed too.I have two at the moment,my ISP and
another private one.Whilst on line a mesaage pops up saying your
computer tried to dial out on the number 19 then later 03,today it
tried to dial out on number 593.
These cannot be telephone numbers and are some kind of area code of
the rogue diallers.
I never will allow the computer to dial out on any number not agreed
by me.My question was is there a way of finding out whose numbers they
are.
It was just curiousity as I have up to date anti-virus and firewall
installed,just wondered who was trying to get in my computer.Thanks
anyway.