Why the HELL would Microsoft Word be accessing the internet?

[aphex]

ZoneAlarm just popped up and said Winword.exe was trying to access the internet...

WTF?

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: aphex
ZoneAlarm just popped up and said Winword.exe was trying to access the internet...

WTF?

do you have Office XP?? or Office 2003?

 

[MailBoxHead]

OMG! Oh no! AIIIIIEEEEE!!!
Or however you put it.

 

[yoda291]

searching for updates and I think XP will periodically verify it's activation code.

 

[Bryophyte]

ET phone home

 

[Mallow]

I have often wondered that and end up blocking it ^_^ So there microsoft!

 

[NFS4]

When you're copying images or text into Word from a browser, Word will have to access the internet.

 

[fr]

Originally posted by: NFS4
When you're copying images or text into Word from a browser, Word will have to access the internet.

Yup. I can say "no" to it with ZoneAlarm and it will still paste fine though.

 

[zCypher]

It's the end of the world as we know it.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: zCypher
It's the end of the world as we know it.

And I feel fine.

 

[ROTC1983]

LOL

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: zCypher
It's the end of the world as we know it.

And I feel fine.

is that from a goldfinger song? i seem to recall something like that....

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: zCypher
It's the end of the world as we know it.

And I feel fine.

is that from a goldfinger song? i seem to recall something like that....

Oh God. You did not just say that...

 

[JetBlack69]

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: zCypher
It's the end of the world as we know it.

And I feel fine.

is that from a goldfinger song? i seem to recall something like that....

Oh God. You did not just say that...

REM