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Re: Windows 'phone home' behavior


Jordan wrote: "I'm on "Notify Me" only status re 7 patches, checking
them out carefully in advance, rejecting several."

For what's worth, I have a Win 8.1 machine which constantly tried to
'phone home' even though I had de-activated all the automatic update
functions I could find. Most of Windows' attempts to contact the
mothership went unremarked on the computer screen; I noticed them only
 because I had Wireshark running in the background recording
everything the NIC sent and received.

Eventually I had to manually enter all of Microsoft's server IP
addresses in the Win 8 machine's host file pointing to 127.0.0.1
(local host) to get it to stop trying to update itself secretly. What
a nuisance!