How do I keep Firefox from trying to update?

Whenever I try to open Firefox my Windows warning will appear saying Firefox updater wants to install something. I currently have "never check for updates selected", so why isn't Firefox following this? My version is 12 and I have no desire to update to 13.

Application Basics
Name
Firefox
Version
12.0
User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Profile Directory
Show Folder
Enabled Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
Crash Reports
about:crashes
Memory Use
about:memory
Extensions
Name
Version
Enabled
ID
McAfee ScriptScan for Firefox
14.4.1
false
{D19CA586-DD6C-4a0a-96F8-14644F340D60}
McAfee SiteAdvisor
3.4.1.195
false
{4ED1F68A-5463-4931-9384-8FFF5ED91D92}
Important Modified Preferences
Name
Value
accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar
0
browser.cache.disk.capacity
1048576
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run
false
browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value
1048576
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
2
browser.startup.homepage
http://www.google.com/
browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID
20120420145725
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
rv:12.0
browser.zoom.full
false
extensions.lastAppVersion
12.0
network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true
places.database.lastMaintenance
1339396488
places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
104858
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
true
security.warn_viewing_mixed
false
Graphics
Adapter Description
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Vendor ID
0x10de
Device ID
0x1082
Adapter RAM
1280
Adapter Drivers
nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version
8.17.12.9573
Driver Date
2-9-2012
Direct2D Enabled
true
DirectWrite Enabled
true (6.1.7601.17789)
ClearType Parameters
ClearType parameters not found
WebGL Renderer
Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti) -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 1.0.0.963)
GPU Accelerated Windows
3/3 Direct3D 10
AzureBackend
direct2d

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{{{TheOldFox, I will read those links and see if that helps and post back here later. For now question is still open. Thank you. }}}

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