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Old December 17th, 2004 Top | #21
 
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I don't trust these things, they seem like a huge open backdoor into your system, especially when integrated into MSN. I would like to see what it is doing on someones system running a firewall [not the SP2 one], I would like to see the activity.
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Originally Posted by j79zlr
I don't trust these things, they seem like a huge open backdoor into your system, especially when integrated into MSN.
Doesn't send out anything unless you choose to participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program.
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I would just like to see what connections it tries to make. A good old netstat -a
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Originally Posted by j79zlr
I would just like to see what connections it tries to make. A good old netstat -a
I don't see any that are associated with MS in there. Would probably be best to have someone with a software firewall check application-specific stats though.

Again, I highly doubt it sends out anything (MSN would have too much to lose if people found out), but I guess you could just block the app from having any network access at all, if you're concerned about it.
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I'm not concerned about it because I will never install it I just like to know what they are up to.
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First part of the review is up:
http://www.osnn.net/forum/showthread.php?p=445199

Let's continue the discussion there.
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