From: Mike '/m' 

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:13:42 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>
>"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=2583
42&start=-1

Wow.  Microsoft is harvesting information from my PC.  I knew W2K SP2's
EULA was trouble.


OK, I'm switching svchost.exe connection attempts from allow to ask on my
PC firewalls.

 /m

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