Re: [SLUG] WinXP calls back to Microsoft (fwd)

From: patrick (patrick@llc.net)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 16:59:00 EDT


can someone please repost the addres so i can read about microsoft
phoning home

On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:50 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:31:19PM -0400, Russ Herrold wrote:
> > I am back at my office -- here is that piece with a trace of a MS
> > box phoning home.
>
> <snip>
>
> I'm wondering:
>
> 1) How would one find out what blocks of IPs are owned by Microsoft?
> 2) What would happen if you blocked _all_ those at your firewall?
>
> Yes, I know you wouldn't be able to surf microsoft.com and msft.net. Big
> deal. But what other problems?
>
> Paul



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