andy_c
join:2001-01-31
Louisville, CO
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Re: MS yap-ware
Hi dja,
I had AntiSpy installed already, but just to be sure, I re-ran it, disabling all the available items except balloon help, the scheduler and the clearing of the paging file. I still have the attempted connection, so it doesn't seem to help this problem.
I'm also seeing Media Player attempting to connect to adserv.internetfuel.com [209.132.218.66:80] now. It seems that if a proxy such as Proxo is set up in the IE proxy settings, many other programs besides IE end up finding out about this and using the proxy as well. So allowing Proxo unlimited access through Kerio was covering up some of these attempted accesses by programs other than IE that I had no idea were happening. I guess this is a double-edged sword. I was able to neuter the ads of Kazaa and RealPlayer by putting their respective URLs in Proxo's URL killfile.txt. This doesn't work anymore, so I guess I'll revert to the HOSTS file.
I must say that this experience has been an eye-opener for me. I don't think I'll ever enable IE to connect to the internet again, except temporarily for a possible download of MS security fixes. |
