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Dialing internet
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 10:59 am
Posted by John Coggins (15 messages posted)

This past weekend I was working off line and without warning my system started to dial for access to the internet (I still use dial-up). I was working off line the next day and a dialing icon appeared in the upper right corner of my screen, even though I had disconnected the wire connecting me to the telephone lines. Has anyone else had this problem? I lost the work I was working on in the first instance, but was able to recreate it from back up information. I ran my Spyware scan and my system came up clean. Please advise. I have received calls to my telephone and when answering there is no one on the line. Could this situation be connected? Thanks for any help and/or advice.

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re: Dialing internet
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Posted by Steve (19681 messages posted)

Everyone get calls with no one there these days.

Your computer dialing problem could still be Malware related. New estimates now guess about 25 percent of the Malware we get on a Computer on any given day is not detectable by AV programs. It now a estimate that about 100 million Computers worldwide are being run by Hackers without the knowledge of the person who owns the Computer.

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re: Dialing internet
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Posted by ocontraire (8 messages posted)

When I had dialup (msn), the same problem occurred. Bring up Intern. Explorer. Click TOOLS at top. Click INTERNET OPTIONS. " CONNECTIONS. Check NEVER DIAL A CONNECT.. This should not prevent you from going online

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