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synctoy using the network surreptitiously

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bwanaaa

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just booted up my pc.
my firewall said that synctoy wants to talk to 204.93.43.59


why would synctoy (a microsoft addon) want to talk to akamai?
 
bwanaaa said:
just booted up my pc.
my firewall said that synctoy wants to talk to 204.93.43.59


why would synctoy (a microsoft addon) want to talk to akamai?
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Microsoft uses Akamai Technology servers to deliver a big percentage of their content, so I'm not surprised that a Microsoft application is communicating with them.

If you want to know more about what's being transmitted/received, then you could load up Wireshark (or another sniffer) to get a packet trace.
 
tnx. interestingly, synctoy doesnt phone home on every boot. who knows how often it gets the urge. i'll have to see. I am currently using === Windows Firewall Notifier === by Author: Khan from Website: http://wokhan.online.fr

It creates a policy to notify me of outgoing connections and just configures the native windows firewall. I dont want to have wireshark running for the next month just to catch the one time synctoy wakes up.
 
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