Autoupdate won't turn off after SP2

I am on dialup through a residential gateway. I started downloading SP2 (it
never went past 0%) and then the CD arrived. I installed SP2 without any
problems and turned off autoupdate again since I do not want to have my modem
dialing out on its own.

However, despite doing that my XP Home system is dialing out as soon as it
gets to the XP login screen. I uses a packet sniffer and here is the
readable part of the data that is being communicated:


EAD /odf/v5odf.xml?0409031455 HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Industry Update Control
Host: v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 440
Content-Type: text/xml
Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:35:59 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "e0ef79a4591c41:388"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:57:19 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

GET /odf/v5odf.xml?0409031455 HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Industry Update Control
Host: v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 440
Content-Type: text/xml
Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:35:59 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "e0ef79a4591c41:388"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:57:19 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

<OperationalDirectives>

<!--SUS 1.0 regulation-->
<DownloadRegulation AcceptanceRate="100" />

<!--SUS 2.0 regulation-->
<DownloadRegulation20 RefreshInterval="5">
<DownloadPriority Priority="High" AcceptanceRate="10000"/>
<DownloadPriority Priority="Normal" AcceptanceRate="10000"/>
<DownloadPriority Priority="Low" AcceptanceRate="1"/>
</DownloadRegulation20>

</OperationalDirectives>


Clearly it seems like Windows Update is still in auto-update mode and is
going out over my LAN to the residential gateway to try an look for software
updates. How can I completely kill this errant process? I looked in both
the Services, registry "run" keys (HKLM and HKCU) and the various Start menu
startup folders and can't find where any such process would be starting.

----
David Pochron

David,

Right click My Computer on the Desktop. Click the Automatic Updates
tab. Put a check in " Turn off Automatic Updates ", click Apply,
then OK to make the setting "stick" otherwise it will revert back to
the previous setting.

For the Services listing : It's listed as "Automatic Updates". Stop
the service and then set it to Disabled.

If you stop the Service you will NOT be able to do any updating .
Any vulnerabilities discovered and any patches/updates issued will
NOT be available to you, then. Therefore, advise against choosing
this setting .

MowGreen [MVP]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============

David Pochron wrote:

> I am on dialup through a residential gateway. I started downloading SP2 (it
> never went past 0%) and then the CD arrived. I installed SP2 without any
> problems and turned off autoupdate again since I do not want to have my modem
> dialing out on its own.
>
> However, despite doing that my XP Home system is dialing out as soon as it
> gets to the XP login screen. I uses a packet sniffer and here is the
> readable part of the data that is being communicated:
>
>
> EAD /odf/v5odf.xml?0409031455 HTTP/1.1
> Accept: */*
> User-Agent: Industry Update Control
> Host: v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Content-Length: 440
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:35:59 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> ETag: "e0ef79a4591c41:388"
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:57:19 GMT
> Connection: keep-alive
>
> GET /odf/v5odf.xml?0409031455 HTTP/1.1
> Accept: */*
> User-Agent: Industry Update Control
> Host: v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Content-Length: 440
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:35:59 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> ETag: "e0ef79a4591c41:388"
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:57:19 GMT
> Connection: keep-alive
>
> <OperationalDirectives>
>
> <!--SUS 1.0 regulation-->
> <DownloadRegulation AcceptanceRate="100" />
>
> <!--SUS 2.0 regulation-->
> <DownloadRegulation20 RefreshInterval="5">
> <DownloadPriority Priority="High" AcceptanceRate="10000"/>
> <DownloadPriority Priority="Normal" AcceptanceRate="10000"/>
> <DownloadPriority Priority="Low" AcceptanceRate="1"/>
> </DownloadRegulation20>
>
> </OperationalDirectives>
>
>
> Clearly it seems like Windows Update is still in auto-update mode and is
> going out over my LAN to the residential gateway to try an look for software
> updates. How can I completely kill this errant process? I looked in both
> the Services, registry "run" keys (HKLM and HKCU) and the various Start menu
> startup folders and can't find where any such process would be starting.
>
> ----
> David Pochron
>
>

"MowGreen [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Put a check in " Turn off Automatic Updates ", click Apply, then OK to make
> the setting "stick" otherwise it will revert back to the previous setting.

I tried this and it didn't fix the problem. Windows Update is still dialing
out after a few minutes of being logged into the computer.


> For the Services listing : It's listed as "Automatic Updates". Stop the
> service and then set it to Disabled.
>
> If you stop the Service you will NOT be able to do any updating . Any
> vulnerabilities discovered and any patches/updates issued will NOT be
> available to you, then. Therefore, advise against choosing this setting .

I set it to manual and the computer stops dialing out. However, it has the
same effect as if I had set it to "Disabled", and you were right about that -
I can no longer use Windows Update while it is disabled.

Anything else I can try to stop WU from automatically dialing out? Otherwise
I guess I'll just have to enable the service manually every time I decide to
check the WU site.


----
David Pochron