synctoy using the network surreptitiously

[bwanaaa]

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?

 

[JBT]

During the install was there anything about "helping" Microsoft by submitting anonymous data?

 

[seepy83]

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?

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.

 

[bwanaaa]

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.