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Posted by: dakotaewing Sep 28 2003, 09:08 AM

I have NetZero dailup at home...I downloaded the new XP Sevice Pack about 4 days ago and ever since I cannot stay online for more that 4-8 minutes before I am kicked off... It really SUCKS -
Can anyone give me some ideas how to fix this??
NetZero wants $2 a MINUTE....
Thanks
Thom
I posted to another thread and got minimal response...
TIA

Posted by: Neal Sep 28 2003, 10:41 AM

Not a Windows guy persay but did you check your Dialup profile, there should be a place where you tell it what to do after so many minutes of being connected, when I used dialup I always set mine to zero effectively saying don't disconnect this connectioon ever.

Posted by: biosurfer1 Sep 28 2003, 03:04 PM

might want to make sure you dont have the blaster worm virus...that is exactly what it does...kicks you off all the time, made me so mad before i figured out what it was.

Posted by: Neal Sep 28 2003, 03:23 PM

If you had the blaster virus you would get a message similar to 'Invalid RPC call' you will be shutdown in 60 seconds or something along those lines. If you go to www.comcast.net they have a link to procedures to check for and remove that virus. What is the exact message you receive when you are disconnected ?

Neal

Posted by: dakotaewing Sep 28 2003, 05:15 PM

I installed the fix for Blaster weeks ago - any chance I could get again after installing the fix - or XPSP erasing the fix?

Thom