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Old 05-20-2004, 07:17 AM   #1
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Question Im on the internet, but then a box pops up asking me to dialup again!

I dont have any other ISP's installed on my computer and this other box keeps popping up while Im on the internet asking me to dial up again even though I am still connected. Can anyone tell me how to stop this? its annoying.
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Old 05-20-2004, 07:21 AM   #2
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Try running Spybot.
http://www.safer-networking.org/
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Old 05-20-2004, 08:18 AM   #3
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Control Panel - Internet Options - Connections - "never dial a connection".

Drag a shortcut to your connection out to the desktop and/or quicklaunch bar, use that to connect instead of being lazy and having it dial by itself when you open IE.
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Well, let me just tell you what you got so you know what you're dealing with. I once had to pay $213 because of that dialup box. I must have accidentally clicked it or something and got logged in through it. I couldn't even access their site so I opened up Web pages and began surfing and then ended up with an incredible phone bill for having accessed this foreign ISP that I had no idea was foreign. I hit the roof when I saw my phone bill but my phone company said that there was nothing they could do and I would have to pay the bill. $213 bucks for nothing. That's another reason why I think these hackers should be shot.

Anyway ad-aware or spybot should take care of it.
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