opening port and dialing

While I'm offline a box comes up and automatticly dials into my dialup service.
How do I stop that from dialing?

 

Hello Unique and welcome to the Board,

Control Panel > Internet Connections > Internet Options > Connections Tab and tick "Never dial a Connection ".

Regards - Charles

 

Hi Charles, I did that sometime ago and it still tries to connect. Any other advice you may have would be helpful. I did a winXP upgrade from win98SE as opposed to the full intall if that helps any.

 

Hi Unique,

Ok, then I would start checking for apps that are trying to initiate the connection.

Lots of suspects, legit programs like AV's that are looking for updates, to malware that want to open a connection and re-direct the Browser.

This is going to be a process of elimination then. Another avenue of investigation: do you have a Firewall that asks for permission for oubound connections? What's trying to connect out?

EDIT: The #1 malware suspect that does this sort of thing is a dialer that got downloaded to your system. Have you scanned your system with SpyBot/Ad-Aware?

Regards - Charles