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At a command prompt, on my computer running Windows XP, I executed the tasklist command to see what processes were running. One in particular caught my attention: wuagrmr (or something along those lines). I then executed the command taskkill /PID #### (where #### is the process id). This had killed the process; I then went into RegEdit safely and task manager safely.
Within RegEdit, go to your Run and RunOnce registry keys, and remove the "Winsock2 driver" entries. That entry points to said process. The process itself, FYI, is NOT part of the initial XP install, although named appropriately.