Mama Bear said:
I'm an XP Home Edition user.
This started happening last week after I updated XP online, with
the latest stuff from Microsoft.
I use DSL and connect windows aren't supposed to pop up, but they
started after that. I asked someone about it and they said to go
into MSIE and the connections settings and set all the connections
to NEVER DIAL. I did, but the window popped up again ( it always
happens when accessing slow-loading web pages ). I went in and the
setting had changed again to allow it to dial!
So I keep setting it to "never dial" and it keeps getting set back
to dial anyway!
I use Zone Alarm firewall and Norton Antivirus which is always
updated, so it shouldn't be a virus etc, right?
What the heck is causing this though?!
It's making me crazier!
If I were you, I would uninstall the NORTON GARBAGE and DOWNLOAD AVG
ANTIVIRUS FREE EDITION! There were some days, NORTON was my hero of saving me
from viruses. One day someone told me to try AVG ANTIVIRUS FROM
http://www.grisoft.com I tried downloading that and found out bunch of TROJEN
viruses and NORTON did not even picking up! Since then, I do not trust
NORTON! It hard to balme to a ANTI VIRUS PRODUCT because, those companies
needs to find viruses in order to create an antivirus! However, if you are
slow, then you are too late! It is always to be fast is the first! AVG
searches viruses fast and update their antivirus data base every day! If I
were you, I would also download spybot and see if spyware doing that!
Sometimes, it is spyware that makes you cannot go on-line rather than
viruses. SPYBOT is a free good program that you should use! Do not set to let
it start when the windows starts and do not enable its resident protection.
If you enable that, every freaking time when you install a program, you get a
dialoug box where you do not know what to click to enable to install the
program. So just search for the updates, download them and check scanning!
You may have to close the program and restart by double clicking to search
for the spyware because for the first time, after you search, downloaded and
installed the updates, it may not scan the computer until you close the
program and restart by double clicking the program.
Also final setup I would try is to click START>>> CONTROL PANNEL >>
CONNECTION AND SETTINGS >>> NETWORK CONNECTION (CLICK SWITCH TO CLASSIC ON
THE LEFT IF YOU SEE CATEGORY VIEW) >> Then after you are in NETWORK
CONNECTIONS>> Left hand side click Create a new connection >> click next >>>
click the radio button connec to the internet >> click the radio button says
setup my conneciton manually >> then click connect using a broadband
connection that is always on >> click next and click finish.
As a final step, that is I would try if I were you. If that does not work I
will put the windows xp cd, click exit when that windows xp installation
wizard appears. Then I would restart, boot from windows xp cd, Then I will do
a windows REPAIR by PRESS R after press F8 for the agreement.
Remember, not the first repair, the second repair will save all the windows
programs and everything, then it will reinstall system files and leave the
programs and anything you have in the hard drive safe! If you get an error
during the repair, I would restart the process again. You are not most likely
to happen such thing, but just in case! Do not do unless you know what you
are doing!
