Re: WinME w/NortonAV boots with http to foreign IP address

From: jayjwa (jayjwa_at_hotspam.microsoftsux.suk)
Date: 10/04/03 

Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 07:14:05 +0000

Randell D. wrote:

> I think it was Quicktime... I have uninstalled and rebooted a couple of
> times and not seen the http connection...
>
>

Maybe it was accessing a cache, like in the discription I found. I hate
when programs do stuff without your knowlege of it; that's another
reason I moved to Linux. If you run a FW on Windows, you have just as
much stuff trying to get out as you do trying to get in! 

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