Connect?

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Steve Frye

The dialogue box asking me if I want to connect to the internet constantly
pops up at random times during the day. It is extremely annoying.

How can I stop that from happening?

Compaq Presario 5080
Win ME

Steve
 
Some program is trying to call home. Updates, parasites.
Run msconfig and check the entries that you are not familiar with, this site
will help.

START-UP APPLICATIONS
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
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Find out if it's some parasites.
IE 6.

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

or:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.


Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm
 
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