On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Paul G. Allen wrote:
OK, here's something interesting, and I wonder if XP does the same thing. I remember back in my days at Akamai I found (by sniffing my network connection) that W2K would phone home before the login screen even popped up, but this is a little twist on that I think.
It can! and will depending on your settings and how you set it up.
I booted my W2K PC this morning with the LAN connection disabled. Now I realize that in a networking environment, the system has to connect to the domain controller in order to authenticate the user. However, when the OS came online, Windows Update reported that a new security update was available.
this can be from 2 things, and your settings do effect this, the windows update if turned on will from time to time check, and also depending on where you are with all of your playing it can know from last reboot that you still had one or more updates remaining.... as of yet WGA does not check for security updates but will complain about WGA updates if your more than some magic number behind
It's nice to know that Windows phones home without me telling it that it can. I'm curious to know how often newer versions of Windows phone home.
It sure does tell you not only that it can but it WILL!!! they didnt hide this but it is in a 30000 page EULA (ok a little sarcastic)
I also find it interesting that it seems the only way to disable the network connection completely (once you've configured it), is to unplug the cable or un-configure it.
I do really hate this feature right now.... but yea
It makes one appreciate Linux that much more.
Ditto Richard Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
