Hello Lloyd, Saturday, February 6, 2010, 4:58:23 PM, you wrote: Lac> For several days now I have a pop-up that keeps coming up at Lac> different times when I am offline. Something is evidently trying to connect to the internet and presumably you are on a dial-up service so not automatically on-line ? It could be something perfectly innocent as your Anti-Virus trying to get an update but it could also be something malicious. The thing to do is unplug your internet modem and then let it connect - this will hopefully show you what it is or where it's trying to go without it actually going there :-) Once you know what it is that's causing this dial-up request then you'll be in a position to sort it. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.10'Karmic'