toggle ADSL connection on and off ???how to ?

i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
socket.

On 20/03/2008 19:56, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
> head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
> there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
> socket.

Depends, have you got a USB modem or an Ethernet router?

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:56:38 -0700 (PDT), (E-Mail Removed)
wrote:

>i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
>head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
>there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
>socket.

Is there not a wee icon in the taskbar down the bottom .Is there a
power plug on the back of the modem or a phone line plug .You can
always go in to Network Connections in Control Panel and disable the
connection .I'm sure there are other ways tho .

Don't you have a firewall or do you just suffer from paranoia :-)

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
> head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
> there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
> socket.

Unless you have taken precautions such a decent firewall and anti trojan
software then you are just as much at risk when you are using the machine.



Peter Crosland

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
> head office and all the other snoopy stuff .

They can't if the PC's off ! Stop worrying.

You ARE running a proper firewall, not the useless Windows one aren't you?

Graham

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>i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
> head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
> there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
> socket.

" Organization: http://groups.google.com "

Why am I not surprised !

In article <d9586e93-6568-4af6-8b08-ddf6a3ebe982
@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
> i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
> head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
> there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
> socket.

Your router have timing functions, but they will not help you control
the "phoning home" as any peice of soaftware that needed to "phone
home" as you put it would simply wait until an internet connection was
established.
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Regards
Jon

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> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
>> head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
>> there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
>> socket.
>
> " Organization: http://groups.google.com "
>
> Why am I not surprised !

You shouldn't be.. The OP is a O2 Broadband customer!

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
> head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
> there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
> socket.

My router is on a remote controlled power socket so I flick it off if I
am out for a few hours. Alternatively I can right click my zone alarm
icon and click "Stop all internet activity"
I also turn off my flat screen monitor to save energy.
We only turn off our PCs overnight (unless downloading) since we believe
booting once once a day is quite enough.

> > i dont want it on all the time cos of programes calling back home to
> > head office and all the other snoopy stuff .
> > there must be a way apart from pulling the plug from the modem or wall
> > socket.

Some routers have a schedule capability so you can set on and
off for certain hours.
If you P2P your IP address is exposed unless you use one
of the free public VPN servers, network activity can
continue for some while, unless you close both the client
and the VPN connection.
As for call homes, best is to block access at your firewall,
but this doesn't work if the program has to reach the vendors
server for updates, like anti-virus and spyware programs.
Many programs automaticall check for updates, this you
can block at your forewall.