I run XP SP2, my ISP is Virgin media to which I connect with a Speedtouch 330 ADSL modem.
All day yesterday, when the computer was idle, the connection box kept flashing onto the screen, not the Speedtouch
Connection thing, but the little one that appears if you open up Outlook Express when offline.
I would click the cancel button, it would go away only to reappear five minutes later.
Being totally paranoid, I spent loads of time doing anti-nasty sweeps, all clean, checking msconfig startup entries, nothing
new or different in there, and running through scheduled tasks, and those progs with potential auto-updates, but could find
nothing that was triggering this wee window to appear.
The event viewer held no clues, and apart from this, the PC was performing just fine.
There has been no new software or hardware installed, nor has anything been uninstalled.
This problem never happened prior to yesterday, and has not happened today.
Later in the day, when on line, the connection was suddenly dropped.
I was all the time aware of the fact that BT engineers were doing their thing in the exchange which is about 400 yards along
the road.
I can understand a dropped connection if an engineering has pulled out a plug or whatever, but...............and at long last,
my question...................is there anything that an engineer could do in the exchange to cause it to excite my adsl
connection and order it to flash the connection box onto the screen?
Or, was it just one of these things that computers do ??