Rick T wrote:
Most probably you have an Autoupdate of some kind that wants to
connect
and update. Find out which one(s) it is and uncheck "Autoupdate"(or
whatever) at the programs Options/Settings.

I disabled everything in the Scheduled Tasks folder which
included Norton's Auto-LiveUpdate dialer and it had NO
effect on stopping the extraneous attempts to dial-up.

The only thing that did stop it was to select "Never dial a
connection" in Dial-Up Networking Properties. Now the only
way it'll dial-up is for me to invoke it manually from a
quick launch shortcut.