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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 6:42 pm Posted by Ken (115 messages posted) Have same problem and it is created by Norton antivurus in my case. Symantec have no real cure for it other than a few ideas that do not work in win98 Ken [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 2:21 pm Posted by George W Bush is a murderer (119 messages posted) Jan Try to identify which program is callig the dialler. If you call up the Task manager ([Ctrl] [Alt] [Del]) as soon as the dialler appears, you can see which programs are running. It may be one of your legitimate programs which load at startup (such as your anti-virus) which you have set to "automatically update". if so then change this setting in the program. Alternatively it may be a hijacker or trojan trying to dial out in which case the first step is to download and run Spybot and/or Adaware. (personally I run both because they have slightly different search methods and find different things). Alan T On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 1:09 pm, Jan wrote: >How do I get rid of the Dial-up Connection Box which appears on my desktop when I >start Windows 98. I cannot remove it easily. I have not installed any new software >recently. Please reply in easy instructions as I am no computer expert > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum