re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 3:30 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Johnb33 (2282 messages posted) Its probably because you actually have spyware on your system. The programs have no reason to block the update process, then everyone that uses updates would get it every time they scan for spyware. sounds like you have something else going on in your system if you have disabled windows updates. On Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 3:00 pm, Stuart wrote: >I have a question about Enabling >or Disabling Automatic Windows Update: >When I disabled Windows Update and got rid of the icon, Windows is still trying >to access the windows update site. I blocked heaps of these addresses and it keeps >trying different ones. Finally I went to the services page and disables the service >which was still running. Guess I'll see how it goes now. My question is why doesn't >my spyware software pick this up. surely if I have specifically disabled this what >right has it got to continue attempting access, using my system resourses etc doesn't >this qualify as spyware. Why does windows want it to continue accessing the net >after I have disabled it? and why when I search google don't I find any references >to this? > Written in response to: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (Stuart: Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 3:00 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (Stuart: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 3:00 pm) re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (Johnb33: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 3:30 pm) re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (Red Shadow: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 5:55 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum