Dial-up connection mystery

[tyhand]

Hi all,

Since about April 10th, everytime I start up AND shut down my PC,
my Internet Dial-UP/Sign In Box automatically pops up.

I've tried disabling this by going to Control Panel > Internet Options >
Connections and clicking the radio button titled "Never dial a connection"
as opposed to "Always dial my default connection".

The thing is that when I start up my computer again, my Dial-Up/Sign In
Box appears again! But wait, there's more... When I check on the 'Connections'
Tab in Internet Options, the option for "Always dial my default connection"
is highlighted! Hmmm... what's MSN up to?

Is there a specific file or script that may be causing this?
Upon shut down, I pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL to see what was still running
and I came up with TrayClnt and Rundll32.

I've also cautiously checked my Registry under >
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\Profile\MSN Internet Access and saw a
file named AutodialDllName in the root C:\PROGRAM FILES\MSNIA\CustDial.dll
Could this be the culprit causing the problem?

Any help in exorcising this Dial-Up demon is greatly appreciated.
I currently run the following:
MSNIA ver 5.6
IE ver 5.5
TrayClnt ver 6.0
Windows 98

Thanks! Peace!

 

[NiceButDim]

I had a problem last week in a similar area.
I wanted windows to re-dial when the connection was dropped. The 'Automatic re-dial' box on the dial-up dialog wouldn't stay checked. My solution was to delete the dial-up details and re-enter.
This might not help at all, but you never know.

 

[PeteH2]

It does sound as the DUN entry is corrupt. First I would remove that Dial up entry, reboot and add it. If that doesnt work. I would remove the 'Dial-up Networking' section within the 'Windows settings' part of 'Add Remove programs' in Control Panel. Restart the PC then add the DUN in the same way.

HTH


Pete...

 

[compuveg]

If you've got a local area network, make sure that those network clients are not bound to the dial-up adapter, by opening the entwork control panel, getting the properties of the TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and other protocols for your dialup adapter. Make sure under bindings that nothing's checked.

I think the MSN software also has a setting for dialing up automatically, seprate from the DUN connection's and the MSIE's settings for that.

 

[Marcs41]

Correct on the seperate DUn setting compuveg. You can overide the defaults in IE, or Outlook. So that is normal tyhand.
Alternatively, there maybe a dialer, worm or virus at work, better double-check.