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by red

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My question is why would DUN start on its own.

Ive got a machine that after being switched on and sitting idle for a minute will open the Dial-up Connection window for no reason. The connection was set to connect automatically, so it did 1 weekend without my knowledge and as im in the UK i got a huge phone bill.

Its got win98 SE, MS Office, ie5, Outlook Express, Winfax pro v.10. There are no scripts setup on any of the connections, if that makes a difference.

The task scheduler only has Tune-up applications, so i cant see that being the problem.

Active desktop is not activated either.

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by adriano_macri

check your internet properties. go to control panel...internet...connections. make sure that "dial whenever a network connection is not present" is not checked. check automatically dial my default connection or never dial my default connection.This should work

by mphoffar

I would say you have a virus (torjan to be exact) on your system. The only other thing I've seen do this are self-extracting programs for adult websites that want to dial some place like Moldova to access their content.

Mark

by pvp

Also check in IE that you have no subscriptions to channels or offline content!

Outlook may be checking your mail every 10 minutes or some other interval.

by michbloch

Check Outlook express, IE, and your fax program. One of these sounds like it may be connecting automatically. Oulook can be set to auto connect to retrieve mail, so check this first.

by dragon emperor

You should check your connection settings and make sure that it is not set to Dial On Demand (that way a program attempting to touch the internet will be unable to unless you have explicitly connected).

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