Re: xp phoning home to MS, why? 207.46.245.220

From: Tom Pepper Willett (tompepper_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/15/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:26:42 -0600

Manual updates via Windows Update Version 5 web site requires Cryptographic
Services, Background Intelligent Transfer Service, and Event Log to be
running

Tom
"Waheeba" <Waheeba@aol.com> wrote in message
news:uYX8A$q%23EHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
| Ok all. I turned this off: "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" and
the
| problem went away.
|
| "Waheeba" <Waheeba@aol.com> wrote in message
| news:uV25G9q%23EHA.3820@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
| > No, no. I have all updates turned off. Thanks for the assist though.
| >
| > "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(nojunk)@msn.com> wrote in message
| > news:umbStoq%23EHA.3236@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| >> You probably have automatic updating turned on. This enables MS to
push
| >> critical updates to your machine in the background. Your machine is
| >> polling the site to see if there are any new downloads. This should
not
| >> take much bandwidth and is a pretty good idea.
| >>
| >> --
| >> Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
| >> "Waheeba" <Waheeba@aol.com> wrote in message
| >> news:O4o2Crp%23EHA.1392@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| >>>I installed SP2 and have all updates turned off, including the error
| >>>reporting service. I noticed that heavy traffic was still going through
| >>>my modem. I used active ports program to find that I was connecting a
the
| >>>remote IP of 207.46.245.220, which goes back to Microsoft. The complete
| >>>IP info is below. Why is Microsoft taking you my dial up connection and
| >>>slowing my data transfer down by having my computer phone home? How can
I
| >>>stop this without uninstalling SP2?
| >>>
| >>> Result for 207.46.245.220
| >>> --> /usr/local/bin/fwhois 207.46.245.220@whois.arin.net
| >>> [whois.arin.net]
| >>>
| >>> OrgName: Microsoft Corp
| >>> OrgID: MSFT
| >>> Address: One Microsoft Way
| >>> City: Redmond
| >>> StateProv: WA
| >>> PostalCode: 98052
| >>> Country: US
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
|
|

Relevant Pages

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