Hi: I'm new to the forum and Perl. I'm a retired programmer with familiarity with Delphi,Clipper,FoxPro2,a little VBasic,Dos,Win31,Windows background. I've created a few HTML pages so far. I'm running XPPro SP2, Mozilla, and Outlook. I hope to load up a test IIS as soon as I create more disk space. I've just purchased a beginners Perl developers book (O'Reilly Lama), and that's as far as I've gone so far. I've got ActivePerl loaded and so far the "Hello world" code works on it. I'm anxious to go into the "meat" of the Perl. I was disappointed I could not find little published on DBI in the local shops. So for my problem, it just so happens that I'm starting Perl when I've got a spammer hacking into the system on occasion. (CNCGroup out of China.) So I'm wondering what Perl can do for me in user end system Monitoring, which isn't as fun as what as I intended to start with, creating pages,etc. What I need is a set of utilities that intercept my modem activity, and can control modem processes. That is, before the system can handle the info, I could simply terminate a process if I can determine the user is one who is listed on my database of IP addresses, or is within a domain. Back in the old days(you'll hear that alot from me.Ha!!!) we had a simple DOS utility that did just this for the old pre-internet COMPUTEL systems. There could exist Windows System utilities that accomplish this I suppose, and simply call the Windows Shell through Perl. This would be fine for the purpose of my stand alone problem, but I'd prefer to be cross platform. So I hope I'm clear hear and sorry if I'm not. I'm trying to clear the cob webs out of the noggin as I go along as it's been awhile since I programmed. Thanks for the help. Andy

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