  Solved!  In reply from singleclicksystems..... Disabling the service "Advanced Networking Service" does the trick.
Hi...... I see outgoing traffic to dell-alive.singleclicksystems.com every minute or so. I suppose it is related to Dell support  software in some way, but I'd like to disable this until needed. I can't find the service to stop, or anything else that accomplishes this. Any ideas???   
network traffic to dell-alive.singleclicksystems.com