RE: Windows search goes out to the internet?

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

Ahhh!  Thanks all ;-)

 gunna disable it and whatch my traffic with etherreal again :-) 


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
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email:  Blanchard_Michael () EMC COM 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Funck [mailto:gary () intrepid com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:21 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Cc: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
Subject: RE: [funsec] Windows search goes out to the internet?



> From: Blanchard_Michael () emc com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:27 AM
>
> I don't want Windows to go out to Microsoft everytime I attempt 
> to perform a search.... Why does it do this???
>
>  Start your sniffer or monitor your firewall log. 
> On XP, Just start, search for files and folders. 
> Why does your computer go to 
> http://sa.windows.com//sasearch/balloon.xsl before you even 
> search for anything? 

According to this microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin article,
the Search Assistant is calling home:
http://tinyurl.com/7e9uv
with a pointer to here,
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_s.htm
for instructions to disable this "feature".





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