VB 'Phone Home'

24 Feb 2006 1:13 AM

al jones

I've tried this another way and gotten no response. So, I'll try
differently.

I have a VB (VS 2005) application which insists that it wants internet
access. From within the program there is nothing - NOTHING - that asks for
internet access. But McAfee and Norton, (that I know of) report that I'm
asking for internet access.

The program is distributed as an EXE, within a ZIP; all references relating
to the internet have been removed (*ALL* unused references have been
removed). All ClickOnce options in publish have been disabled; and I'm
sending the ouput from a release build of the program ....

How do I tell this program that it doesn't need to call mama???

//al

24 Feb 2006 10:45 AM

Larry Lard

al jones wrote:

> I've tried this another way and gotten no response. So, I'll try
> differently.
>
> I have a VB (VS 2005) application which insists that it wants internet
> access. From within the program there is nothing - NOTHING - that asks for
> internet access. But McAfee and Norton, (that I know of) report that I'm
> asking for internet access.

Both aren't 100% reliable. Unplug your network cable, call off your
guard dogs, and see what happens?

Maybe download an http packet sniffer and see if it really does make
network calls?

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>
> The program is distributed as an EXE, within a ZIP; all references relating
> to the internet have been removed (*ALL* unused references have been
> removed). All ClickOnce options in publish have been disabled; and I'm
> sending the ouput from a release build of the program ....
>
> How do I tell this program that it doesn't need to call mama???

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24 Feb 2006 3:12 PM

Mitchell Vincent

al jones wrote:

> I've tried this another way and gotten no response. So, I'll try
> differently.
>
> I have a VB (VS 2005) application which insists that it wants internet
> access. From within the program there is nothing - NOTHING - that asks for
> internet access. But McAfee and Norton, (that I know of) report that I'm
> asking for internet access.
>

Be sure you're not using a component (library or such) that phones home.

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24 Feb 2006 5:00 PM

james

Could it be that the application you are using was installed from ClickOnce
Deployment? If so, the developer(s) may have
set the application to look for an update from their website each time the
application is started.( This can be done from a regular setup application
too.) If this is an application that you have written, you can go back to
the deployment project or ClickOnce setup, and rebuild it and unselect the
Check For Updates selection in the Deployment package.
james

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> al jones wrote:
>> I've tried this another way and gotten no response. So, I'll try
>> differently.
>>
>> I have a VB (VS 2005) application which insists that it wants internet
>> access. From within the program there is nothing - NOTHING - that asks
>> for
>> internet access. But McAfee and Norton, (that I know of) report that I'm
>> asking for internet access.