Microsoft secret monitoring?

This is off topic, but I seem to always get best response from this NG.

Yesterday I installed MSN and the next day the proxy logs showed the machine
had downloaded 18.5M from windowsupdate.microsoft.com in 6 sessions over a
three hour period. No files can be found, so this download activity must be
monitoring, checking or something. This happened on my own machine last week
and sometime ago, a user was getting 40M downloads a day!
What is also curious is that downloads from windowsupdate.microsoft.com
have been blocked and it still comes.

I have tried to find out why this happens but no success as yet. If it
wasn't for the proxy logs, no-one would be aware of this. A thing called
BITS (autodownload during free bandwidth or something) may have something to
do with it, but I thought that was only on XP.

Any suggestions please?



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Regards

Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast

Are you sure you don't have it set for auto updating? Maybe have it set to
download and install updates. I'd be worried if data was being uploaded
from my PC, but downloaded to my PC from Windows Update. Doesn't seem like
anything to worry about.

If you want to turn of Automatic Updates it is in the Control Panel on all
2000 (SP3) XP and Server 2003 OS.


Rod
"Slarty Bartfast" <> wrote in message
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> This is off topic, but I seem to always get best response from this NG.
>
> Yesterday I installed MSN and the next day the proxy logs showed the
machine
> had downloaded 18.5M from windowsupdate.microsoft.com in 6 sessions over a
> three hour period. No files can be found, so this download activity must
be
> monitoring, checking or something. This happened on my own machine last
week
> and sometime ago, a user was getting 40M downloads a day!
> What is also curious is that downloads from windowsupdate.microsoft.com
> have been blocked and it still comes.
>
> I have tried to find out why this happens but no success as yet. If it
> wasn't for the proxy logs, no-one would be aware of this. A thing called
> BITS (autodownload during free bandwidth or something) may have something
to
> do with it, but I thought that was only on XP.
>
> Any suggestions please?
>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> Slarty Bartfast
>
>

DortoH

Thanks for your quick reply DortoH.
These were NT machines, and I can't see where to turn of Automatic Updates,
unless you mean
"Automatically check for Internet Explorer Updates", but I'm sure that's not
what you mean.
I have a laptop next to me running Windows2000 SP1, and I still can't see
where to turn of Auto Updates.
I just did a plain old install of MSN - not everyone here has this problem -
no auto updates have been touched on any of them.
These big downloads ARE a problem, because we pay for the bandwidth.

Regards,
Slarty

Slarty Bartfast

Automatic updates is installable through windows update (for win2k, not sure
about nt4).
Maybe you've installed it by mistake, so check if you can find wuaucpl.cpl
(control panel applet for automatic updates) in your file system and run it.
/Henrik

"Slarty Bartfast" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your quick reply DortoH.
> These were NT machines, and I can't see where to turn of Automatic
Updates,
> unless you mean
> "Automatically check for Internet Explorer Updates", but I'm sure that's
not
> what you mean.
> I have a laptop next to me running Windows2000 SP1, and I still can't see
> where to turn of Auto Updates.
> I just did a plain old install of MSN - not everyone here has this
problem -
> no auto updates have been touched on any of them.
> These big downloads ARE a problem, because we pay for the bandwidth.
>
> Regards,
> Slarty
>
>

Henrik Johansson

Automatic updates do not exist for NT.
Robyn

"Henrik Johansson" <> wrote in message
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> Automatic updates is installable through windows update (for win2k, not
sure
> about nt4).
> Maybe you've installed it by mistake, so check if you can find wuaucpl.cpl
> (control panel applet for automatic updates) in your file system and run
it.
> /Henrik
>
> "Slarty Bartfast" <> wrote in message
> news:O1ctA$...
> > Thanks for your quick reply DortoH.
> > These were NT machines, and I can't see where to turn of Automatic
> Updates,
> > unless you mean
> > "Automatically check for Internet Explorer Updates", but I'm sure that's
> not
> > what you mean.
> > I have a laptop next to me running Windows2000 SP1, and I still can't
see
> > where to turn of Auto Updates.
> > I just did a plain old install of MSN - not everyone here has this
> problem -
> > no auto updates have been touched on any of them.
> > These big downloads ARE a problem, because we pay for the bandwidth.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Slarty
> >
> >
>
>

Mr. Robyn Myers

Huh?
Slarty

"Gary - US" <> wrote in message
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> Sounds like you are in over your head my man.

Slarty Bartfast

This NG is a place to ask for help. But your comment was constructive
anyway...

Regards,
Slarty


"Gary - US" <> wrote in message
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> Hmmm.....maybe so. But I have never let Windows Update or MSN kick my ass
> to the point of having to ask for help. Can you say that? Uh.....no.
That
> is why I said what I said because it is painfully obvious.

Slarty Bartfast