dial-up networking problem

For the past few days, my dial-up networking window keeps poppping up
whether I want it to or not, at VERY annoying times. Most days, it's
waiting for me (opened) when I turn on my pc b4 the whole desktop even
loads!

I did nothing to make this happen, as it started from one day to the
next without my having installed or fiddled with anything. I don't have
any "automatically connect" boxes checked (never did), so I don't know
why this keeps happening.

It's very annoying because every time it does it (anywhere from every 10
seconds to 1x/minute) you have to stop what you're doing in another
program and close the dial-up window.

Anybody know how I can correct this problem? Please give me simple
instructions if you can.

Thank you VERY much for any help,
Bobbett

As a first shot, update your virus scanner and run a scan.
You may have a dialler Trojan trying to get out.

--
Bally Ally

Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com).

Version: 7.0.253 / Virus Database: 263.3.5 - Release Date:
23/06/2004


"Bobbett" wrote in message
...
For the past few days, my dial-up networking window keeps
poppping up
whether I want it to or not, at VERY annoying times. Most
days, it's
waiting for me (opened) when I turn on my pc b4 the whole
desktop even
loads!

I did nothing to make this happen, as it started from one
day to the
next without my having installed or fiddled with anything.
I don't have
any "automatically connect" boxes checked (never did), so I
don't know
why this keeps happening.

It's very annoying because every time it does it (anywhere
from every 10
seconds to 1x/minute) you have to stop what you're doing in
another
program and close the dial-up window.

Anybody know how I can correct this problem? Please give me
simple
instructions if you can.

Thank you VERY much for any help,
Bobbett

My virus scan is updated weekly (or more often) and run daily.
But in the interest of this problem, I did both, and no problems were found.

Any other suggestions?

Bobbett

Don wrote:
As a first shot, update your virus scanner and run a scan.
You may have a dialler Trojan trying to get out.

free for personal use spybot/adware detection & removal tools:
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Might be worth checking out... AVs generally don't sweep for spyware or
adware

Rick



Bobbett wrote:
For the past few days, my dial-up networking window keeps poppping up
whether I want it to or not, at VERY annoying times. Most days, it's
waiting for me (opened) when I turn on my pc b4 the whole desktop even
loads!

I did nothing to make this happen, as it started from one day to the
next without my having installed or fiddled with anything. I don't have
any "automatically connect" boxes checked (never did), so I don't know
why this keeps happening.

It's very annoying because every time it does it (anywhere from every 10
seconds to 1x/minute) you have to stop what you're doing in another
program and close the dial-up window.

Anybody know how I can correct this problem? Please give me simple
instructions if you can.

Thank you VERY much for any help,
Bobbett

I dl'd and installed EVERYTHING anyone here suggested, including the
Stinger, Ad-Aware, spybot, Shredder, etc. Every program found a few
things it eliminated from my pc, but nothing has changed the fact that
my dial-up window pops up ALL the time (unless I'm already connected).

Any other things I could try?

Bobbett

Bobbett wrote:

I dl'd and installed EVERYTHING anyone here suggested, including the
Stinger, Ad-Aware, spybot, Shredder, etc. Every program found a few
things it eliminated from my pc, but nothing has changed the fact that
my dial-up window pops up ALL the time (unless I'm already connected).

Any other things I could try?

Bobbett


There are a number of programs that run "autoupdates": every once in
awhile they try to connect to the net to look for update patches... mind
you that feature is more for people who have "always on" connections.



Rick

There are a number of programs that run "autoupdates": every once in
awhile they try to connect to the net to look for update patches... mind
you that feature is more for people who have "always on" connections.

I can understand "autoupdates" and such if it were every once in a while
(like my virus program, etc.) but this is constant, almost every 30
seconds!!!! And it started out of blue from one day to the next, and I
had NOT installed anything new or changed any of my settings the
previous day. Also, I am now getting more disconnects than I did
before, and in between a disconnect, if I don't completely turn my pc
off and restart it, then my connection lasts even a shorter period of
time (like only a few minutes). In some cases, the disconnect freezes
my pc, too.

Seems like a problem with my dial-up program, no? How would I check that?

tia,
Bobbett



Rick

In that case, there's a program running in the background trying to phone
home....
look here for instructions on how to clean up your startup axis, preventing
unnecessary programs loading
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php



--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp

"Bobbett" wrote in message
...
I dl'd and installed EVERYTHING anyone here suggested, including the
Stinger, Ad-Aware, spybot, Shredder, etc. Every program found a few
things it eliminated from my pc, but nothing has changed the fact that
my dial-up window pops up ALL the time (unless I'm already connected).

Any other things I could try?

Bobbett

Spybot Search&Destroy seems to be the only major thing missing from your
anti-malware lineup that I can tell.
http://www.safer-networking.org/

And what Noel said in his reply to your posts.



Rick




Bobbett wrote:

There are a number of programs that run "autoupdates": every once in
awhile they try to connect to the net to look for update patches...
mind you that feature is more for people who have "always on"
connections.


I can understand "autoupdates" and such if it were every once in a while
(like my virus program, etc.) but this is constant, almost every 30
seconds!!!! And it started out of blue from one day to the next, and I
had NOT installed anything new or changed any of my settings the
previous day. Also, I am now getting more disconnects than I did
before, and in between a disconnect, if I don't completely turn my pc
off and restart it, then my connection lasts even a shorter period of
time (like only a few minutes). In some cases, the disconnect freezes
my pc, too.

Seems like a problem with my dial-up program, no? How would I check that?

tia,
Bobbett




Rick