I've installed XP-Home+SP2 on a new hard disk and Internet Explorer works fine over my dial-up account, but when trying to download updates I get the message "Socket Error #1104". however, if I FIRST connect to the internet with IE, SpyBot will subsequently download updates OK. I also get a similar problem with Ad-Aware. I've turned off Windows firewall but still no good.

I'm a new user of XP - can anyone help?