Re: Minor Rant: Windows Update keeps fscking with me

Pennywise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
"Steve N." <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

|>Good Lord!
|>
|>I have turned off Windows Update but the damn thing keeps trying to |>connect. I've monitored it with Kerio PF & Ethereal and it keeps yakking |>with some POS windows update site or three. I'm on dialup so bandwidth |>consumption is a major concern to me.


Start | Run <type in> services.msc <enter>
stop, then disable Automatic Updates





Thanks for that PW. Did it. Didn't make any difference even after a restart.

Here's a 2 minute capture record from Ethereal after a restart and dialing up (edited out some gobble-T-gook):

GET /msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: identity
Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

GET /msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: identity
Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

GET /msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: identity
Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

GET /msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: identity
Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

GET /msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: identity
Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

GET /msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: identity
Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

I don't want it to "Keep-Alive", I want it to "Keep-Dead"!
I Don't need MS to try and patch my OS unless I say it's ok. Period.

Yes, I looked up kb908531. I don't need or want it. My dialup connection is constantly busy with this horsecrap going on.

Steve N.
.

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