'Dial whenever a network connection is not present'

[Ed Felty]

I have three simple weather programs that check for weather updates for
different places at varying times. Until yesterday, when offline, they did
nothing. Starting yesterday, each will cause a 'dialup' dialog box to
appear. 'Connect automatically' is not selected, so the dialog box just sits
there. If I click 'settings', I find the option, 'dial whenever a network
connection is not present' is selected. I select 'never dial a connection',
apply and OK. The next time one of them tries to check the weather, another
dialog box appears and the problem is the same. I have checked all three
programs and all are set not to dial out. In Control Panel>Internet
Options>Connections, 'Never dial a connection' is selected. The only change
in the system that happened yesterday is the computer sharing this
computer's internet connection 'died'...literally. Nothing on the dead box
was set to call out on it's own, so I'm at a loss to stop this foolishness.
Any and all thoughts gratefully accepted.

Eddie in Colorado Springs

"My wife keeps telling me that I don't ever listen to her...or something
like that."

 

[Drew Tognola]

Ed,
in the 'control panel', 'internet options', 'connections' tab, click
'settings' and uncheck 'automatically detect settings', click 'OK'. after
checking the 'never dial a connection' option & clicking 'OK', log off of
windows and log back in again, don't reboot. give it a try.
Drew

 

[MAP]

-----Original Message-----
I have three simple weather programs that check for weather updates for
different places at varying times. Until yesterday, when offline, they did
nothing. Starting yesterday, each will cause a 'dialup' dialog box to
appear. 'Connect automatically' is not selected, so the dialog box just sits
there. If I click 'settings', I find the option, 'dial whenever a network
connection is not present' is selected. I select 'never dial a connection',
apply and OK. The next time one of them tries to check the weather, another
dialog box appears and the problem is the same. I have checked all three
programs and all are set not to dial out. In Control Panel>Internet
Options>Connections, 'Never dial a connection' is selected. The only change
in the system that happened yesterday is the computer sharing this
computer's internet connection 'died'...literally. Nothing on the dead box
was set to call out on it's own, so I'm at a loss to stop this foolishness.
Any and all thoughts gratefully accepted.

Eddie in Colorado Springs

"My wife keeps telling me that I don't ever listen to her...or something
like that."

.
Hi, Most of these weather programs are bundled software

and contain spyware (thats why their free) It is this
spyware that is dialing and changing your settings.

http://www.safer-networking.org/ Spybot
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
http://www.lavasoft.de/ Ad-aware
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html (CWS)cool web
shedder and hijack this

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Did you disable sharing on the dialup settings after the other machine died?

Steve

 

[Ed Felty]

In

Ed,
in the 'control panel', 'internet options', 'connections' tab, click
'settings' and uncheck 'automatically detect settings', click 'OK'. after
checking the 'never dial a connection' option & clicking 'OK', log off of
windows and log back in again, don't reboot. give it a try.
Drew

Drew...thanks for your reply. I checked and 'automatically detect settings'
was not selected. I had already tried changing the setting and rebooting,
and changing the setting and logging off/on did not make any difference.
Thanks again, though.

 

[Ed Felty]

In

and contain spyware (thats why their free) It is this
spyware that is dialing and changing your settings.

http://www.safer-networking.org/ Spybot
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
http://www.lavasoft.de/ Ad-aware
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html (CWS)cool web
shedder and hijack this

Map..thanks for your reply. Yes...spyware is an everpresent problem. I know
for a fact that these are clean and I ran Spybot and AdAware with the latest
updates this AM. Nothing was found. The issue is that these programs worked
fine for months and don't work right now. I can't help but wonder if the
second computer that died (Motherboard, I think) somehow affected some
registry setting that govens the 'call out' command. Again, all three
programs are set to not call out. Thanks again, though.

 

[Ed Felty]

In

Did you disable sharing on the dialup settings after the other machine
died?

Steve

Steve...thanks for your reply. No, I had not, as I didn't think of it. I
have just turned off ICS and I'll see if that does it. Thanks again.

 

[Ed Felty]

In

I have three simple weather programs that check for weather updates for
different places at varying times. Until yesterday, when offline, they did
nothing. Starting yesterday, each will cause a 'dialup' dialog box to
appear. 'Connect automatically' is not selected, so the dialog box just
sits there. If I click 'settings', I find the option, 'dial whenever a
network connection is not present' is selected. I select 'never dial a
connection', apply and OK. The next time one of them tries to check the
weather, another dialog box appears and the problem is the same. I have
checked all three programs and all are set not to dial out. In Control
Panel>Internet Options>Connections, 'Never dial a connection' is
selected. The only change in the system that happened yesterday is the
computer sharing this computer's internet connection 'died'...literally.
Nothing on the dead box was set to call out on it's own, so I'm at a loss
to stop this foolishness. Any and all thoughts gratefully accepted.

Eddie in Colorado Springs

"My wife keeps telling me that I don't ever listen to her...or something
like that."

I think I fixed the problem...by disabling the NIC in Drvice Manager. Since
then, the 'Never dial a connection' option seems to be constant and no more
'dial up' dialogue boxes have appeared. Thanks again to those who
responded...keep up the good work!!!

Eddie in Colorado Springs

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