Networking starts by default - why?

Hi everyone, I just installed the latest Kali and networking services are running when I boot (wlan gets configured, is UP, and will autoconnect, nm-applet shows available networks...). Any idea why this is and/or how to prevent it? It didn't happen from the live USB, only after I installed to disk (i didn't change any configs other than grub).

I tried explicitly disabling them from startup apps, /etc/update-rc.d, and removing a few of the symlinks from the different rc* directories, but from what I'm seeing online I shouldn't need to do this.

thanks,
boof

You removed links manually?..That is a very common error. You cannot just remove a link without first removing the script. So that is not the way, even though you force it.

You need to stop networking with update.rc.

Try stopping it at levels levels 1-5.