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Hubby runs Firefox 3.0.3 on Vista, and whenever he opens his computer, he gets a box that wants to connect to Broadband. He has turned off his wireless connection, and this box also pops up on a regular basis while he's working on the Net on a wired connection. He wants to get rid of this box. What options should he be looking at?
If it's the same problem I had, it's actually IE that's sending out the dialogue boxes, and he has to go into IE and tell it to stop trying to connect. I can give you the proper tabs to look in when I get home, but it's somewhere under network connections, I think.
Jon, if you get the cable station G4 - Heroes repeats on that station about a bajillion times per week.
I've already seen the ep, but thanks.
Connie it's: Tools - Internet Options - Connections (tab)
Change the option to "Never Dial a Connection"
The only other thing I'd say is that he should make sure that it's not happening while there aren't any applications open that would require a connection. That pop-up was one of the ways I was cued into the fact that I had a virus once back in the day. The virus was trying to call home.
I always connected first before I opened an application that would legitimately need connection, so it never popped up and tried to dial unless there was something else that wanted a connection, ie, the virus.
From Slashdot:
"Spaceport America received an early and double holiday gift this week: first, the expected (positive) FAA environmental impact report, and second, the hoped-for but not immediately expected 'launch site operator's license.' With this license, and with the previously accomplished creation of a tax district, two of three pieces are in place as required by the New Mexico legislature to receive its funding package. The third, a lease with a space services tenant to use the facility, may come this week also, in the form of a contract with Virgin Galactic. While timing is impossible to predict, the contract is a virtual certainty. The New Mexico Spaceport Authority fully expects it, and so has projected late 2010 for completion of hangar and terminal facilities. Virgin Galactic also seems confident, as they have already screened and submitted their first 100 customers (called the Virgin Galactic Founders) to their contracted medical and training supervisor. They are busy screening their second 100 'spaceflight participants' (NASA and RKA having decided that only those who can tack 'career' on the front of it deserve to be called 'astronauts')."
"The New Mexico Spaceport Authority"
Saying that again.
"The New Mexico Spaceport Authority"
Somewhere, RAH is smiling.
I need Mac-ma. The latest Leopard update seems to have frelled my work Mac something awful. I can only start in safe mode - otherwise I get stuck at the blue screen.
I've downloaded & installed the disc image update from Apple.com, but restarting after that gave me the scary flashing grey folder! I'm restarting again in safe mode and will be running Disc Utility repairs. Fingers crosssed...
Jessica, another Mac-friend reports some problems with the update, it may not be just you!
