Why have i begun to receive pop up message: usb phone now connected to this computer

Question

i have begun to receive a message saying a usb phone is now connected to my computer....Why? What is going on? never experienced this before. What are my options? is someone connecting to my computer that i dont know about???

Answer 1

USB needs a physical connection to a computer. Thus, if there are no USB device connected to your computer, then probably you recently installed an application which has the USB Phone feature, such as Skype http://www.usbphoneworld.com/scp.html or Dlink http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=466

If there are USB [sometimes cordless] devices nearby then probably it is connecting to your computer, but if you are "far from the madding crowd" of computers, there is no need to be alarmed!

If you are using Windows XP, verify in the Add/Remove Programs if there is an installed USB Phone among the list of programs. If you yourself did not install this application, then somebody else who has access to your computer probably did. Un-installing the application would discontinue these pop-up messages.