Win2k tries to phone home

This is really bugging me. Every time I boot up, Windows tries to contact "windowsupdate.microsoft.com". I can't work out where it gets the instruction from, so I can't kill it.

But it's getting sneakier. I've set up a firewall rule to block the connection, and the logs show that it tries about 40 different ports before it gives up. The worrying thing is that it is gradually trying to get out on more and more ports. Initially it was betweenm 35-40. Now it's trying nearly 50 different ports!

Anyone know where in the registry (or wherever) I can kill this thing? (service pack 2, by the way!)

Cheers!

Dan.

There should an applet in control panel for this or go into services from adminstrative tools and disable the Automatic Updates service.

Thanks NooNoo - I'll check it out when I get home...

I seem to remember something about this - I think maybe I've already played about with that setting, but I'll give it a go and see what happens :)

Cheers again!

Dan.