Windows XP Pro SP1 pop-up 1

[flipke]

Hi

A customer of ours receives at irregular times a pop-up window. It's a pop-up window I've only seen on Win 98 systems, it asks for the network password. Yet, in Win 98 your pc will ask you for this password right after booting. Now - Win XP - the system asks for the password while logged on and working on it. We already scanned with antivirus and with ad-aware. No results...

By the way, the pc asks for a network password (at least, this is what the title bar of the window says), but in this pop-up window, it seems like he tries to connect with his ISP's pop3-server.

Has anyone seen this before, or does anyone have any suggestions?


Tia


Flip

 

[linney]

Under the Security settings for the ISP Properties see what he has selected there under Typical Settings, Validate My Identity. For Dial-up it is usually "Allow Unsecured Password" in the drop down box.