RE: windows update reporting info back to MS? (and .NET fw SP1)

From: DSardina (dsardina@si.rr.com)
Date: 08/01/02 

From: "DSardina" <dsardina@si.rr.com>
To: "Douglas R. Wilson" <dallendoug@dallenhome.org>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:28:36 -0400

This looks like an update server. (Windows Update Status)

This is the server that does enter your computer and reads the update files
which,
you already have installed yadda yadda yadda, and knows what you need to
update.

For it not to timeout after downloading a update, is weird.

wustat.windows.com (207.68.131.8)
207.68.128.0 - 207.68.207.255
MSN
One Redmond Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US

Just my 2cents...

Dom-

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-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas R. Wilson [mailto:dallendoug@dallenhome.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 9:28 AM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: windows update reporting info back to MS? (and .NET fw SP1)

I put the .NET framework on workstation for test purposes yesterday
before leaving work, and didn't put SP1 (for .NET) on it. This morning,
the automatic update had already downloaded the patch, and prompted to
apply it. (I have my windows update client set to download, but not to
install unless I approve).

I went ahead, and ran the install. A few seconds in, I noticed sudden
network activity, and the install sat there for a moment. Not enough
data transfer seemed to be going on for it to be a download (and, in
theory, the patch should have already been downloaded), but I pulled up
the following with netstat:

 TCP    MYHOSTNAME:1802        wustat.windows.com:http  ESTABLISHED

Being paranoid, doesn't this look like windows update is reporting back
to microsoft? (windows.com is owned by MS and redirects to microsoft.com
if you go the plain www.windows.com domain). In theory, I forget the
official WU blurb, but isn't "no information returned to microsoft about
your computer"?

Does anyone else know anything about this? (pardon me if this is
something blatantly obvious and/or discussed -- I have had my head in
projects for a bit).

TIA,

Doug

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