Problem with my windows auto-update.

I don't really know what's going on right now. Recently, my power went out in my house, and I had to restart my computer. When I did, my windows auto update patcher started it's work, downloading a new patch and what not. When it normally finishes, it usually asks me to restart my computer, but this time it didn't. After it finished, I kept my computer on, and the windows update icon stayed in my system try...but it's not downloading anything. I opened up my system processes and found out that it's running off of my user name, and not with all the rest of the system processes. It's still on, and it's not downloading anything. I fear that it may be spyware, and I have run AdAware 6.0, and HiJackThis, but I don't know how to read the logs to tell what's good and what's bad.

Can someone help, or at least offer some advice?

 

I had the same situation...I turned off the Auto update (under System in control panel) and that cleared the system tray. You can then turn on auto update, or Notify, which I use, and decide to try downloading again if you get a notification message.