By way of background, I'm running XP Home SP2 which has been kept right up to date including this week's Patch Tuesday. And I've got Win auto-updates active in notify-only mode.
Since the updates this week, I've been getting frequent requests for Svchost to access the internet, typically when I first connect (dialup) but often when I'm disconnected. And if I check Process Explorer, Win Auto-update is active at the time, usually just for a short while.
If I return to the MS update page (via IE's Tools), it agrees that there's nothing new and all installations on Tuesday were successful.
Anyone else getting this, and know (or can intelligently guess) what's happening? Scans indicate that my system's apparently clean, although of course there's no guarantees.