From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:fuu1l1h164tamn8045ore22st4vopr1qi3{at}4ax.com...
> Anyone know why my W2K SP4 notebook has been trying to connect to the
> host stats.update.microsoft.com whenever I boot it up?   The two
> connection attempts per boot-up started right after my recent visit to
> Microsoft Update two days ago.
>
> There were no connection attempts to that host prior to the visit to
> Microsoft Update, so I suspect the recent patches have something in them
> that is initiating the connection.  Naturally I'm curious what that
> might be.  MSN search came up blank. ("* We couldn't find any results
> containing stats.update.microsoft.com.")
>
> /m

There's a small discussion concerning stats.update.microsoft.com at

http://news.zdnet.com/5208-1009-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=12978&messageID=25834
2&start=-1

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