From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The "Doorbell" is a Trillian thing, and it dings when people on
your contact list come online.  It's configurable in the Trillian
Preferences, as to when it sounds. You can disable it totally if you like.

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Glenn M.
"Geo."  wrote in message
news:459416a6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:45941039$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>     Expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates,
>> expand System, expand Internet Communication Management, and then click
>> Internet Communication settings.
>
> OMG, XPsp2 and Vista allow downloading of print drivers over http??? So a
> proxy server is no longer sufficient to prevent downloading of
> executables?
>
> You know I found another annoyance, every now and then I get a doorbell
> sound from this box but nothing flashes, nothing appears to be active.
> What the hell is the doorbell sound supposed to signify? I went thru
> windows sounds, it's not defined for anything there. Is it something for
> trillian maybe? Anyone got a suggestion to track it down?
>
> Back to phoning home, found this "When the user searches the local machine
> or the internet, Search Companion occasionally connects to microsoft to
> download an updated privacy policy {!} and additional content files used
> to format and display results".
>
> Jesus, more phone home shit? There is no way to rope vista in, this thing
> is under Microsoft's control from one end to the other. They bypass hosts
> file, they can bypass any software firewall (in fact it's imcompatible
> with sygate probably because sygate want's to get under a level they don't
> allow in order to maintain control), I suppose I could block them in my
> router if I knew every IP address they might be using but short of that
> they control the horizontal, they control the vertical..
>
> Geo.

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