It is probably a month ago that I was testing some software that was taking so much time to start because at each startup it was needlessly trying to ring-back home to find an update (not sure that it was trying to find an update or trying to send some interesting info to the website). Nevertheless this process of checking for the update at each startup was not acceptable for me(unfortunately there was no option to disable the auto-update).  A simple solution was to just install a firewall ...