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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: dosco on September 07, 2008, 04:37:40 PM
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After I installed avast!, my Internet options were set to "Never dial a connection", and whenever I change them, it comes back. What should I do?
I use dial up to connect to the internet.
I use windows 98 as operating system.
But I don't want "Never dial a connection" set as default. When I change it to my default service provider - ""Never dial a connection" comes back again.
I unistalled AVAST and everything was ok - but after re-installing AVast - the problem started again.
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I am on dial-up the difference being my connection is set to 'Dial whenever a network connection is not present' and that works for me and avast doesn't change it to never dial a connection.
Thought I'm somewhat surprised by your comment as avast shouldn't change your connection settings as it hasn't changed mine.
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avast does not change the settings on how the user connect.
How did you set the Update (Basic) and (Connections) tab of settings? Automatic or manual or ask? Dial-up or none?
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I experienced this few times when I was on dial up. It was random and not persistant. That is, change it back and it would remain as it should for a long time. I didn't really find anything that was causing it.
The only thing I recall was making sure the connection details in avast where set correctly. I know it's not supposed to make a difference but read on...
After I switched to high speed, on occasion the connection setting would change from never dial a connection to Dial whenever a network connection is not present and the connection box would be on the screen. The setting in avast would also either be changed or none selected.
This leads me to believe that in win98 the 2 are related. When windows sees something trying to access the internet it will popup the dialup box. In this case, avast.
Now that I've justified the suggestion I'm going to make
Check the setting in avast
right click the "a" icon
select Program settings
click Update(connection)
Make sure it's set to dialup.
Like I said, the 2 aren't supposed to be related, but maybe win98 sees something we don't.
I never did determine what caused the changes or have any real proof, just my experience.
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