RASWatch protects you from dialing expensive phone numbers without your knowledge.

RASWatch does, what you don't: It monitors your phonebook entries for changes of important parameters: area code, local phone number, username and password. RASWatch alerts you of new phonebook entries or changes of existing entries.

You can startup RASWatch with your system (user-independent) and setup a monitoring interval. RASWatch resides in the system tray and uses minimal resources. You won't even notice that RASWatch is running until it's time to alert you and save you money!

RASWatch is in charge of a extensive program help that explains virtually every aspect of the program, contains an introduction, a how-to section, a FAQ and many more.

Features and Screenshots

 
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Monitors of phonebook entries for changes of important parameters (area code, local phone number, username, password)
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Displays a message box on new phonebook entries
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Displays a warning whenever an existing phonebook entry changed
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User-specific autostart
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Minimizes to system tray

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Limitations

RASWatch does not currently support sub-entries (v1.00b) (sub-entries are alternate phone numbers which will be automatically dialed if connecting to the primary phone number fails. Sub-entries were implemented from Win2000 and do not work with Win9x/ME).
Only the first phone number will be checked and monitored. This is no problem on systems running Win9x/ME, because these systems do not support sub-entries at all.

RASWatch does not monitor (for) active connections nor check for connections which are not established by the use of phonebook entries. Use a firewall and don't let any application startup the internet connection to protect yourself.
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Revision History

v1.01 (e) 05/21/2002
- shows last scan time and scan count independent of monitoring status
- transparently bitblts menu bitmaps
- displays full color bitmaps in context menu

v1.0.0 (e) 04/30/2002
- first public release version of RASWatch


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Download

RASWatch has been tested on Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and a minimum of 266 MHz Pentium CPU and 128MB RAM. You need the MFC version 4.2 (Microsoft Foundation Classes) installed to your computer. (Nowadays, the MFC v4.2 is already installed on most Windows systems; you can check your system by searching for MFC42.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL in your Windows system directory.)

Download the actual public release of RASWatch from this page. RASWatch is FREEWARE. Nobody may demand money for it.

  status file language version date size
(zipped)
zip online RASWatch eng v1.01 05/21/2002
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Installation Notes

The installation of RASWatch is fairly easy, so don't be anxious to try it on your own. Just follow the step-by-step instructions:

 
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If RASWatch is still zipped, unzip it first. Refer to the manual of your packer if you don't know how to do so.
 
 
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Create a new directory in your program folder (e.g. C:\Program Files) named RASWatch.
  
 
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Copy or move RASWatch.exe, RASWatch.hlp and RASWatch.cnt to the newly created folder.
  
 
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Start RASWatch by double-clicking on RASWatch.exe
  
 
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Read the displayed Exemption from Liability carefully and accept it if you agree with the conditions.
  

You can setup the monitoring and/or quickscan feature of RASWatch in its options dialog.
 
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