Unwanted dial-ups

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Gedeon

Something in my computer attempts to dial-up an Internet connection several
times a day. Since I don't have the "connect automatically" box checked, it
does not succeed, but the thing puzzles me. How do I find out what program
is the culprit, and how do I stop it from doing so? Many thanks for your
kind help. Gedeon
 
Something in my computer attempts to dial-up an Internet connection several
times a day. Since I don't have the "connect automatically" box checked, it
does not succeed, but the thing puzzles me. How do I find out what program
is the culprit, and how do I stop it from doing so? Many thanks for your
kind help. Gedeon
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You need Spybot or Adaware.
 
Thank you for your reply. I have Adaware, and it finds nothing but a few
cookies. Gedeon
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try Spybot as well, there are some things that Adaware finds but Spybot
doesn't, and vice versa!
Also have you done a full virus scan with up-to-date signatures
recently?
 
I don't think it's spyware or anything like that, and if
you have run a system scan, I really doubt it's a virus
(the dialer viruses usually at least give you some clue
what they're doing). I'm guessing that it's just a
setting in some program you have that accesses the
internet for one reason or another (Weatherbug, NAV, or
some other program that updates). Check the connection
settings on all your programs that acces the internet and
make sure they aren't set to dial out.
 
Gedeon.

I have had this happen to me a few times. I found it was caused from a
program that I had installed before it started. Two programs that I can
remember caused it.
A weather program called Weather Bug.
The new version 7.1 of Netscape. (I have gone back to IE 6)
There is other programs that I cannot remember the name. I suspect that this
is your problem. Good luck,

Bert
 
Gedeon said:
Something in my computer attempts to dial-up an Internet connection several
times a day. Since I don't have the "connect automatically" box checked, it
does not succeed, but the thing puzzles me. How do I find out what program
is the culprit, and how do I stop it from doing so? Many thanks for your
kind help. Gedeon
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If this is new, then the most likely culprit is something you
activated recently. Or something that might have had a delayed
response time (my copy of Real Player has an option not to try to
update for 30 days). You might try looking at your Program Files list
to see if you can identify the sort of thing likely to call home, like
something with a trial period, or something that suggested
registration.

Have you checked Scheduled Tasks? With Win98 I noticed that Windows
Update would often get turned on again after some updates.
 
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