Subj : Windows Azure To : Ed Vance From : mark lewis Date : Fri Jul 13 2018 09:27 am On 2018 Jul 12 23:02:00, you wrote to Sean Dennis: EV> Even though I don't 'think' I have any MS Azure software on this XP box, you don't have to have it to use it... in this case, you are not using it, m$ is and that's where they want the reports to be sent to... EV> the next time either of those two IP Addresses that I've already EV> checked, ask for access to the internet I will click the YES button so EV> MS will get whatever report my pc wants to send to them. why not just go ahead and let them have access so you don't have to worry about that? EV> I have some other IP Addresses on my list already to let me know they EV> are safe for me to send a report to Microsoft. those may be old and no longer used for that task... EV> I began using the internet in 1996. But because I have read BBS EV> Messages (since 1984) about tricks some people do over the internet I EV> got paranoid, and I try to be "very very" careful. there's nothing wrong with being paranoid... being too paranoid can cause problems like not being paranoid enough... EV> After I turn a MS Windows pc ON I usually don't use it until after EV> I've updated the Definitions for the 'Watchdog' programs I use on my EV> pc, i.e.: AntiVirus, Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, Spybot S&D and EV> Winpatrol. those should update automatically and you should be fine to use the machine before during or after their updates... EV> I don't have to do that when I turn the Power Switch on the C=64 EV> ON..... they're a non-target... XP is a known easy target... EV> It doesn't take that much time for the Windows pc to do the updates, EV> and I feel better after I've done the updates, that maybe the EV> 'baddies' won't get access to my computer (this time). it will always be a chase game... you cannot stop what you do not know about and if they come up with a new way in that nothing detects, well... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... Were the Pennsy police known as Keystone Kops? --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .