Help with dialer problem, please and thank you

[Honk]

Hello. When I boot up, the dialer starts up asking to
connect to my default dialup connection. I haven't
determined an exact pattern but, a few times through the
day (approx. 0-3 times) the dialer will pop up asking to
connect. If I leave the computer on through the night
(approx. 14 hrs.) I find 5 Dial-up connection windows on
top each other, each one offering to connect. I've checked
all of the settings I can find re: dial-up connections,
modem configuration, Windows and McAfee Anti-Virus update
settings. I should mention this seemed to begin after a
major update from both Windows and McAfee about 3 weeks
ago.
Can you please help me stop the dialer from starting up
without my permission? Thank you.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hello. When I boot up, the dialer starts up asking to
connect to my default dialup connection. I haven't
determined an exact pattern but, a few times through the
day (approx. 0-3 times) the dialer will pop up asking to
connect. If I leave the computer on through the night
(approx. 14 hrs.) I find 5 Dial-up connection windows on
top each other, each one offering to connect. I've checked
all of the settings I can find re: dial-up connections,
modem configuration, Windows and McAfee Anti-Virus update
settings. I should mention this seemed to begin after a
major update from both Windows and McAfee about 3 weeks
ago.
Can you please help me stop the dialer from starting up
without my permission? Thank you.
.

Sounds like you have aprogram trying to access the
internet to update itself.

Look at the McAfee preferences and see if it shows update
automatically enabled.

 

[Honk]

-----Original Message-----



Sounds like you have aprogram trying to access the
internet to update itself.

Look at the McAfee preferences and see if it shows update
automatically enabled.


.

Thank you. This started to occur 3 weeks ago. My McAfee
has been set to auto-update for a year and a half. If
there is no connection currently active, it would wait
until there was an active connection. I'll try setting the
update to manual and see if that makes a difference. Can
you think of any other possibilities? Thanks again.

 

[Honk]

Hello Thanks again.
After disabling McAfee's auto update the dialer stil pops
up. So thats not it. Please, any more posibilities you can
think of?

 

[Geoffw]

check IE and other internet programmes and make sure none
are set to connect automatically (email and news and IE
would be my first look)

I would also suggest having something like ad aware and
spybot have a look at your system if you cannot find the
problem

good luck

Geoff

 

[Guest]

I have exactly the same problem. I recently did a fresh install of W2K, and
installed all of the critical updates on the Windows Update site. I have
disabled auto update on everything I can think of, and it still pops up.
I've gone to connection settings in IE, and set it to "Never Dial A
Connection". It pops up the next time I boot. When I go back to check the
connection settings in IE, I find that they have reset themselves to "Dial
Whenever A Network Connection Is Not Present". Isn't there any way to stop
any program from changing your settings?

 

[Guest]

I think I may have found the answer to the problem. I did the first solution
and (so far) my dialer has not popped up on it's own. Check out:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316530