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

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 23:50:02 EDT

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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