Broadband/dialup problem

looksee

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me. I was recently getting a message when I click in the Google search window, it seemed to be asking if I wanted to use google-something to find the website. I fiddled with something on it and now a different window comes up, suggesting that it wants to try and dialup through Eircom. If I click cancel it produces a blue screen with a load of text that goes too quickly to read, then the whole system crashes and when it reopens it tells me it has recovered from a serious error.

I am on a Toshiba Pro, Windows XP, IE 7.

The strange thing is that I am on Eircom wireless broadband, which is fine, in any of the places I can find info it says that the dialup is disconnected/switched off, whatever.

On Internet Properties/connections it says 'Dial-up etc: Eircomnet(default), Never dial a connection'

On network connections/Dial up there is a tick, but it says Eircomnet disconnected.

All this just mysteriously started happening, no one was fiddling with it. Does any of this make any sense, is this enough information for anyone to suggest what I can do about it. Thanks for reading.

Tom Dunne

Sounds more like a Windows driver problem.

Have you checked for viruses and spyware?

Moving to Windows.

looksee

Thanks for the reminder Tom Dunne, just found that a tecky had turned off automatic updates on my spyware programme to solve a different problem, and not told me.

Apparently the problems is one of those 'automatic dialer' virus type things that tries to dial you up to Outer Mongolia or wherever, but of course since I am on wireless broadband it was just confusing everything. I think its sorted now, thanks.