autogk 1.95 http stormwest

I have recently installed autogk on a machine. When I launch autogk it establishes a connection to stormwest via port 80. I have removed the dae.dll file which i understand to be the adware. I removed dae by using both the control panel and deleting the file from windows\system32. I am running many machines (5) all with autoGK and they dont appear to connect to stormwest. Can anyone please explain why this machine would. I have uninstalled autogk - clean the reg several times and re-installed. I know its the autogk program that is making the connection because i can see it via tcpview. I have ran virus scan, spybot and other utils - the machine checks out fine. TIA MovCPM

option "check for updates" was activated during install

Len0x, Thanks for a quick reply. Is there a way to turn this function off - via a registry setting or an ini file? Thanks MovCPM

@Trystian, Delete the file '.versioncheck' from C:\Program Files\AutoGK or whereever you have AutoGK installed. AutoGK checks for the existence of this file and then tries to check for updates. Try deleting this file and then see if tries to establish connection to Stormwest.com. P.S: I too am concerned with the association with Stormwest. I hadn't known about it before. Hopefully len0x would have a good explanation for this.