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My Internet Options keep changing by itself
A weird thing has been going on with my Internet Options for the last couple weeks. I don't know for sure, but it may have started around the short period of time that my Virus protection software was expired (by short I mean like 20 mins). But anyway, in IE under Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections, for some reason it will automatically change my Choose Settings from "Never dial a connection" to "Dial whenever a network connection isn't present" (in fact, it just did it while I was typing). My internet ends up disconnecting and a dial-up window comes up. The problem I'd say is mainly inconvenient, but it does make it harder to reconnect sometimes. However, I am also worried they're might be some spyware or something that got onto my computer. I have IE7 by the way. Any suggestions? Is it possibly a memory issue? I've been meaning to upgrade from 512MB to 1GB ever since I got IE7, which has been taking up more memory and making my computer go slower.
- I've used AdAware, but I have avast! for anti-virus software, and no luck. I was getting the "shut down" blue screen when I had AVG, and since I changed, I've never looked back to see if they fixed whatever bug it was. I don't think I've heard of Spybot, so let me try that. I was also considering running AdAware in Safe Mode, and try that, but that's always a little risky.Does anybody else use avast! anti-virus software? Can you use that program while Windows is in Safe Mode?
Illjazz wrote: But anyway, in IE under Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections, for some reason it will automatically change my Choose Settings from "Never dial a connection" to "Dial whenever a network connection isn't present" (in fact, it just did it while I was typing).
I've been having this problem for years, on more then just one computer. I do not know the cause but I doubt very much it's virus related. I have both virus and spywear protection.HiGhLaNdEr48
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Posted December 28th, 2007 13:00
This setting also changes on my machine but I never have any issues with connecting or being disconnected.I did find this referring to advast possibly causing this. See this link. http://www.avast.com/eng/after_i_installed_av.html
HiGhLaNdEr48 wrote:
This setting also changes on my machine but I never have any issues with connecting or being disconnected.I did find this referring to advast possibly causing this. See this link. http://www.avast.com/eng/after_i_installed_av.html
The avast! suggestion didn't work, because it's still doing it. I haven't done the full scan yet, so I will probably be able to do that after the holiday. I also forgot to mention that I use SpywareBlaster too for spyware prevention.- I got help at the forum/link below, and it worked. Just in case there are others with a similar problem.
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Posted December 26th, 2007 18:00