Persistent download of updates - slow broadband

[grm500]

One of our pc's on the network has been persistently downloading "updates" since last week, slowing up our broadband connection. We are unsure of what it is downloading and from where - the icon in the processes part of the task bar shows a blue globe with the micosoft logo suspended just above it.

It starts minutes after connecting to the internet, which the machine is for the whole part of the day.

We have three pc's connected via broadband through one of them over a small network.

Identified the problem as being local to this machine only by disconnecting it from the network, whereby everything the other machines performnce reverted to normal. It doesn't appear in the task manager in applications or processes.

Anyone got any suggestions as to what it is and how we stop it occurring?

We use up to date Norton Internet Security, Norton antivirus, use TrendMicro Housecall regularly and run Spybot Serch and Destroy and Adaware on a twice weekly basis.

Thanks for any suggestions forthcoming

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[pdV6]

Start-->Settings-->Control Panel-->Automatic Updates

Here you can control how and when your PC connects to MS for updates.

[grm500]

The problem machine has the same settings there as on the non-problem machines.

We have now changed the problem to inform me when there are updates, it is still chuntering away downloading stuff; hopefully this will alleviate our probem.

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[FourWheelDrift]

Mine did this a while back, it's the same update that it downloads, never properly updating itself to say it's been recieved and installed, so it downloads it again next it checks....

Turn off automatic update and then run it once manually. This sorted it out for me.

[grm500]

Cheers for the advice.

The update finally finished downloading and installed itself.

Have also switched off the automatic update.

Really annoying when your broadband connection is slower than dialup on a bad day.

Interestingly, my dialup is now much faster than 6 months ago, must be because lots of people have moved off it on to broadband.

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