Unable to use laptop offline

[rnadeau]

With the help of ths forum I have networked my laptop & desktop together, the laptop had a built in card, & I installed one in the desktop, then installed a crossover cable between them. Here is the problem when I turn on the laptop, it automatically has my desktop dial my ISP, I am unable to use my laptop offline, even when I click cancel during dial up on the desktop, it will wait & try to dial up again I have disabled auto-dial in the control panel on both computers. My OS is XP in both computers

[Newt]

Sounds like some app on the laptop REALLY wants to phone home.

Unless you know which app, it could well be a piece of spyware/malware/adware. Run Ad-aware, Spybot, and a good AV scan. Then remove all temp internet files.

[rnadeau]

I installed & ran SpyBot, cleaned out the temp int files, was able to use the laptop offline, however when I restarted it again dialed up. Using msconfig I unchecked bmupdate, I now seem to be up & running, by the way I have no idea how bmupdate got ther in the first place, as I do not use a scanner on the laptop ? ? Thanks for the help