Problem with internet since downloading latest OS

[Frances144]

Since I downloaded OS 10.4.7, my modem dials up of its own accord to connect with the internet.

It also does this at a drop of a hat when I open any app.  Why is this?  I find it rather irritating.  How can I stop it?

Thanks
Frances

[bobw]

When you update Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.4.7, Dashboard starts 'phoning home' -- it checks for updates on the internet for your widgets on the following two URLs:

http://www.apple.com/widgets/widgetadvisory
http://www.apple.com/widgets/parser.info

For this, it launches a process called dashboardadvisoryd, and checks every day for new widgets. Quite handy you might think, but on large networks, you probably would like to prevent this.

Login with an administrative account and open Terminal, then execute the following command:
$ sudo vi /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
When asked for a password, retype your own password to verify that it's still you and not someone else. Next type an i to enter input mode, and add the following two lines below the line that reads <dict>:
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <true/>
Press Escape to leave the edit mode and type :wq, followed by Enter, to save the file and quite the editor. The file is saved and mach_init.d won't start this process anymore. Now type the following command:
$ sudo vi
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dashboard.advisory.fetch.plist
and enter input mode once again by pressing i, and after the line that reads <dict>, we also add the lines:
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <true/>
Leave the input mode and save the file as before. Now restart your computer, and this process won't start automatically.

QUOTE(Frances144 @ Jul 15 2006, 12:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Since I downloaded OS 10.4.7, my modem dials up of its own accord to connect with the internet.

It also does this at a drop of a hat when I open any app.  Why is this?  I find it rather irritating.  How can I stop it?

Thanks
Frances

[Frances144]

Thank you for that info, bobw, much appreciated.

I am, however, a tad nervous about going into Terminal (t'would be for the first time) and I am wondering if there is an easier method.  Does Dashboard have a Preferences thing or is this the only way?

I would even consider trashing Dashboard and I never ever use it.  I prefer Konfabulator until they got Yahooed.

Thanks again.
Frances

[Frances144]

Well I had a go with Terminal........

and you know when you try to do your best and you get half way through and then you realise that you did it wrong but it is too late to go back and change anything and then you are not sure whether to have another go, so you do and it looks funny.......

So then you exit Terminal and hope that you haven't caused major damage and maybe you will just have to live with the internet connecting every bloody moment after all you are on broadband so you only pay a fixed fee..........

So then you worry that you have caused permanent damage as you had no real idea what you were typing!

Hey ho!

Any thoughts, help, gin?

[Paddy]

Gin, definitely the gin.

Just in case what you did doesn't work or anyone else wants it gone and is not too keen on messing with Terminal, someone has come up with a nice little app, complete with GUI, to do the heavy lifting:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=306687

See last post in the thread. (there's another couple of options before it - the options get easier as you go down the list!)



Now...do I update or not?