[NBLUG/talk] Automatic Redhat Downloads or a Hack?

[Micxz (lovedialup.com)]

sbenn at cds1.net wrote:
> 
> This sounds like MicroSoft behavior.
> 
> > RedCarpet has been downloading a lot on mine also. I removed it.
> >
> > - Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
> > entemann at thread-softly.com
> > Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 1:18 PM
> > To: talk at nblug.org
> > Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Automatic Redhat Downloads or a Hack?
> >
> >
> > My DSL connection has been sluggish for the past couple of days and while
> > investigating it, I discovered that my Redhat 9 linux box was merrily
> > downloading what at first glance look like Redhat updates.  I have used
> > up2date and also Ximian's redcarpet to update the system manually but it was
> > a
> > couple months ago.  Is it possible that I inadvertently set up one of the
> > two
> > to automatically download updates, and if so how can I check and  turn it
> > off?
> >
> > Don

My windowz computer sits in the corner and sends at random times packets
to various microsoft servers. 

I try not to boot that one;

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Micxz