Internet Download Manager Update Disable Trick (IDM)

Here is trick to disable automatic update of IDM

Solution 1
Its a much more effective way of stopping the update checks, you will need to open up regedit (there is no need to run as administrator) and go to the following key:

Click Start Button

Select RUN 
Type   Regedit 

then Enter you need to find below registry:

1 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DownloadManager
and then change the �LastCheck� and/or �LastTry� value to something like e.g:

10/07/13

Then restart your computer !!

Solution 2

You can setup your firewall to block this IP on ALL Ports: 

174.133.70.198 & 174.133.70.98 & This Host: star.tonec.com

then it won't be able to access it's update server