How to stop connections to Microsoft

I disabled the automatic updates because it was setting off the
firewall too often (I haven't found enough details to make the proper
firewall rules). There are still attempts to connect to microsoft IP
addresses. What else can be causing these connection attempts? I
don't use instant messaging, my browser is firefox, and thunderbird is
my email/usenet reader.

Thanks.

someone
Mon Apr 21 14:02:39 PDT 2008

Andy here's one possibility, XP also has a service which contacts MS for
TIME updates ... keeps your PC time exact!
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"AndyHancock" <AndyMHancock@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I disabled the automatic updates because it was setting off the
> firewall too often (I haven't found enough details to make the proper
> firewall rules). There are still attempts to connect to microsoft IP
> addresses. What else can be causing these connection attempts? I
> don't use instant messaging, my browser is firefox, and thunderbird is
> my email/usenet reader.
>
> Thanks.

someone
Mon Apr 21 14:11:04 PDT 2008

silly me, thought this was an XP group! W2K has a time service too. Is
that causing the problem? If not you may want to go view services and
see if something else there is the culprit!
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"someone watching" <nospam@bogusaddress.com> wrote in message
news:uJIlJM$oIHA.5916@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Andy here's one possibility, XP also has a service which contacts MS
> for TIME updates ... keeps your PC time exact!
> ___
> "AndyHancock" <AndyMHancock@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:86581fa2-cd39-4d58-beeb-0a5b5bc7cfe4@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>>I disabled the automatic updates because it was setting off the
>> firewall too often (I haven't found enough details to make the proper
>> firewall rules). There are still attempts to connect to microsoft IP
>> addresses. What else can be causing these connection attempts? I
>> don't use instant messaging, my browser is firefox, and thunderbird
>> is
>> my email/usenet reader.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>

AndyHancock
Mon Apr 21 20:00:48 PDT 2008


Yikes. Millions of services. Get back to you later.

But I run a pretty tight ship. Nothing gets installed without triple
checking. I'd be surprised if it was a service that I installed.
Perhaps Windows has default services, but it will take some time to
check these out.

Thanks.

On Apr 21, 5:11 pm, "someone watching" <nos...@bogusaddress.com>
wrote:
> silly me, thought this was an XP group! W2K has a time service too. Is
> that causing the problem? If not you may want to go view services and
> see if something else there is the culprit!
> ___"someone watching" <nos...@bogusaddress.com> wrote in message
>
> news:uJIlJM$oIHA.5916@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
> > Andy here's one possibility, XP also has a service which contacts MS
> > for TIME updates ... keeps your PC time exact!
> > ___
> > "AndyHancock" <AndyMHanc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:86581fa2-cd39-4d58-beeb-0a5b5bc7cfe4@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> >>I disabled the automatic updates because it was setting off the
> >> firewall too often (I haven't found enough details to make the proper
> >> firewall rules). There are still attempts to connect to microsoft IP
> >> addresses. What else can be causing these connection attempts? I
> >> don't use instant messaging, my browser is firefox, and thunderbird
> >> is
> >> my email/usenet reader.
>
> >> Thanks.

Poutnik
Mon Apr 21 21:53:57 PDT 2008

In article <e4MF3Q$oIHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Mon, 21 Apr 2008
16:11:04 -0500 someone watching says...
> silly me, thought this was an XP group! W2K has a time service too. Is
> that causing the problem? If not you may want to go view services and
> see if something else there is the culprit!
> ___

BTW there is no need to use microsoft for time service
neither in w2k ( sntp ) neither in xp ( ntp ).

one can use NTP servers from xx.pool.ntp.org