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Old 03-04-2005, 03:50 PM
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Dial-Up Dialogue won't stop appearing.

Ever since yesterday, when using the internet, if I come across a 'Cannot Be Found' error, the Dial-Up dialogue pops up asking me to connect to the internet, when I'm connected just fine through LAN. It just happened to be the page not loading is all. But the popping up of the thing is extremely annoying.

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition, using the Firefox 1.0.1 browser. This began happening yesterday.
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Old 03-07-2005, 06:07 PM
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Aw, no one can help?
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Old 03-07-2005, 06:35 PM
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If you don't actually use dial-up connection and all of the sudden you get these dial-up pop up then that mean you got the dial-up virus. Basically this virus will try to call a long distance number which by the way is very expensive call and then your local phone company will collect the money from you.
Here is more detail about the virus:

http://www.faqfarm.com/Computer/Virus/Dialer/57221

here is a link for Microsoft program that get ride of it (free till July 31)
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...areInstall.exe

Cheers
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Old 03-09-2005, 03:48 PM
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But it's not actually dialing, just appearing. And in the phone number slot, it shows a number I've used in the past (when I did use dial-up).
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