randau wrote:
randau wrote:

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.


Rick wrote:

Hmm... what about
Start/Programs/Startup folder or
Start/Run/msconfig.exe |Startup tab
anything in there?


I disabled everything in the MSconfig.exe Startup tab with
still no effect on the extraneous dialups.

I think I can live with the "Never dial a connection" option
selected and just manually invoke a Dialup from my quick
launch shortcut when needed.


You could have a virus or spythingie happening.
What's your anti-malware stuff say ?


I run Norton AntiVirus with automatic LiveUpdates and a
manual LiveUpdate and disk scan every week. I also run an
AdAware spyware disk scan periodically. Though, Norton has
caught a number of email viruses, its disk scans have been
clean. AdAware has caught some spyware and regularly
catches tracking cookies on subsequent disk scans.
That's all.

--
randau


Is it Windows Update, maybe ?

Doesn't sound like you have a malware infection... what firewall are you
using and do you think you could trap the outbound connection attempt
with it ?


Rick