mcafee makes dial-up popup when not connected

I've just bought and installed Mcafee (what a damn stupid name that is, I
can never remember if it is mcafee, or macafee or macaffee or mcaffee, why
didn't they call their company "Bertie"?) on my mother's computer, and it
all seemed fine.

I was certain I had chosen the option such that it would only update
manually, yet today, my mother reports that a Dial-up networking box popped
up, in the middle of doing something else. Since she only occasionally
connects to the Internet, I really don't want this happening, I just want to
do the updates either when she is actually on line, or when I manually
choose to do it during any of my visits.

I've a gut feeling that since this version (8, 2004 edition) is tied in much
more to Internet Explorer, that this might now be an explorer network
setting ("don't dial a connection etc"). Actually, I consider this a
negative step on the part of Mcafee - a non-browser window is definitely
preferable to bringing up a browser window, why do companies always move in
the wrong direction with develepment?

Anyhow, to the point - does someone with this "red M in the corner" version
of Mcafee know how to disable automatic dialling, because if this can't be
fixed, it will have to be uninstalled - can't have that damn box popping up
every few minutes, virus or no.

Geoff.

"Geoff Phillips" <geoff RemoveThis @geffers.NOSPAMu-net.com> wrote in message news:c067bj$2dm$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> I've just bought and installed Mcafee (what a damn stupid name that is, I
> can never remember if it is mcafee, or macafee or macaffee or mcaffee

Good point Mr. Philips, Phillips, or is it Philipps? ;o)

> why didn't they call their company "Bertie"?

Maybe you should ask Mr. McAfee, Jeff ..er...Geoff.

Sorry, no help from me on this one (I don't use it), but
I couldn't resist remarking on your surname levity.