Yes--the automatic updates within the program work via autoupdate, and I
don't think you get the little icon with percentages indicated that is
sometimes visible with autoupdate.
I haven't seen a lot of feedback about how this works with a dialup. In
general, you should just ignore autoupdate--open and close the connection at
your own choice--the background processes should take care of themselves and
neither initiate a dialup, nor prevent you from closing the connection--and
they'll resume when the connection is available, and not fully utilized by
the user.
I can see why that first update would be annoying.
I think that I would recommend that dialup users uncheck the box to do that
update and scan, so that they can do those operations--update via Windows
Update, then close the connection and scan--at their own choice of time.
(but not many dialup users will read advice like this before they reach that
point!)
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