Dial Up problems (W98)

[irimi8]

First off, help apprecited.
I configured a PC with WIN 98 for dial up using manual setting in Win98. The problem I have is the dial up window appears now every time I reboot. If I click the box "dial automatically" it does, but on every reboot. Before, it would dial when I clicked on and opened a browser or mail program, which was nice. I get on line fine, but the windows drive me nuts. I tired all options, Dial Default connection etc. Help anyone?

[schwerv]

Normally if your computer is dialing the internet, it is because some program is asking for internet access. This could be an auto-update portion of a program you use, or a messenger. Even something simple like a weather bug type program will ask for internet. If you have it set to dial upon request, then it will attempt to dial every time there is a request.

If you check your programs and you dont find a problem, I would suggest downloading the latest Spybot Search & Destroy from their website at http://www.spybot.info and running a scan with that. Maybe you have some sort of spyware or adware that is requesting internet access.

If none of that works, you can download and run HijackThis! and post a hijack log here for someone to look at.

Good Luck

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