why does my pc want to dial a connection when it starts up?

Answer 1

There are a couple of possibilities. Some ISP dialers will allow an option to dial up and connect upon boot up. The other primary cause is that spyware on your computer is trying to send data and because you are dial up it is invoking the connection to the internet.
If you decide spyware is the cause, There are quite a few free anti-spyware programs available! I suggest that users should use at least 3 different products to regularly scan their systems. Most of these products are free for non-commercial use versions that have disabled some features, usually the active resident protection.

Spybot Search and Destroy is an excellent program for scanning for and removing spyware. The resident modules can be a bit buggy, but the extra included tools such as startup manger are great! http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

Adaware is another good scanner and removal tool but it has no resident abilities at all in the free version. http://free.lavasoft.com

Ewido is fairly new as a free spyware scanner, but it comes from the people who brought us AVG, so I expect good things: http://free.grisoft.com

Microsoft has their free scanner avalable for download although many advise that this tool is a bit permissive of questionable programs and add ons! Defender does offer a couple of options the others do not have such as scheduled scan and a resident process for active protection. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

The Yahoo toolbar includes an Spyware scanner that works ok. Yahoo does not advise this but you can run this program outside the toolbar by simply creating a shortcut to the exe file found in the yahoo directory under program files. http://toolbar.yahoo.com/

A new player is on the scene with SUPERAntiSpware. I was fairly impressed with the deep scans performed by this product, and it found some inactive files with spyware embedded,that the others had missed. I will add this to the list of tools in the arsenal and see how it really performs on active spyware. If you want to try it you can download it here: http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

Once you have your system cleaned up of all the spyware, then you should protect yourself against new infestations. Spyware Blaster does a very good job and does not use up any system resourses in doing so. Works with both IE and Firefox browsers: This Download can be found at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Another good way to avoid spyware is to use the Firefox browser. While not immune from spyware infestation, you will certainly not have as many problems as when you run I.E. Easy Download at http://www.mozilla.com

Answer 2

YOU BETTER READ THIS if ur using windows xp and IE browser. I'll guide you to answer your q.

1. Click "Start."
2. Locate and click "Control Panel."
3. The Control Panel window opens.
4. Locate and click "Network and Internet Connections"
5. Locate "Internet Options."
6. A new small window will pop-up.
7. On top of that smal window there are 7 tabs, including "Connections.
8. Now click on "Connections"
9. There are three options to choose.
10. Click on "Never dial a connection" if ur using a High-speed internet. Or click on "Dial whenever a network connection is not present" if u have both dial-up and highspeed internet.
11. After choosing, click "Apply" then "OK"
13. When you restart ur computer, it will not dial a connection when it starts up.
12. Congratulations! you made it.

Answer 3

The most likely reason is that some program on your computer is trying to connect to the Internet at startup, which causes the system to open a dial-up prompt. Such program could be the AOL Instant Messenger, for example, or your mail client. You should make sure that none of the programs are set to "Automatically Sign-On" or other setting like that.

In addition, to prevent them from automatically bringing up the dial-up prompt, you should disable the Autodial feature. Assuming you are using Windows XP, the steps to do that are as follows:

1. Go to Control Panel (Start/Settings/Control Panel).
2. If you are using Category View, click Network and Internet Connections.
3. Click Network Connections, and then on the Advanced menu, click Dial-up Preferences.
4. Click the Autodial tab.
5. Click to clear the check boxes that are listed under Enable autodial by location.
6. Click to select the Always ask me before autodialing check box (if not already selected).
7. Click to select the Disable autodial while I am logged on check box.
8. Click OK, and then close the Network Connections dialog box.

Answer 4

Go to start, control panel, internet options, click on the "connections" tab, then choose..never dial a connection and hit apply
Thats ALL you gotta do!! You don't have a virus or anything else like some of these people suggested

Answer 5

You have some type of program running on your pc that is actively seeking for a connection once your system is powered up. Most likely some spyware or adware or other form of malware that was installed on your desktop. It wants to connect so that it can start sending and receiving information from its host.

Your box is infected. I'd run some adware, spyware, malware removal jobs and do a full virus scan, just to be safe.

You also need to identify the service that is running and its registry entry and clean it up.

Enjoy.

Answer 6

This most probably because there is a program that run in the start up of the windows that try to connect to the Internet...
You can remove this program from the start up in windows XP (or any NT windows) using the Following Steps
1.Open Start menu==>Run
2.Write in the Run window "msconfig" in the open filed
3.A window named System Configuration utility will be opened
4.Choose the Startup tab
5.Uncheck the program
6.Restart the Computer

Answer 7

Several possibilities. You might have programs installed that need to do frequent auto update. These porgrams are anti-virus program, anti-spyware, an so on. So as soon as Windows boots up they will then want to check for updates. But there are also the more dangerous forms of auto-running programs that hide themselves in the background. These are adware, spyware, and hackerware. They need Internet connection to do their "things" such as sending information collected from your computer to outside world. Sending data that processed on your computer, and continue to download more backweb kind of programs into your computer. You should run some counter-measure programs to clean your system. Spybot Search & Destroy is a good spyware killer program, Adawre is a good advertising bots killer. ZoneAlarm is a good firewall protection program. All these programs are free for download and you can find them by doing a search using their names on Yahoo search.

Answer 8

Uh oh, you've got some spyware/malware dialer installed on your system. You'll have to use McCaffe or spyware software to remove it.

Answer 9

your settings are wrong...go to control panel intenet conecction show all connections ...right click on each connection and readjust setting than set default connection

Answer 10

You may have a virus or a 'dialer' - use 'adaware' and 'spybot' to check for dialers etc ... and a good antivirus too - You should also install a firewall asap !!!!!

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