Re: Windows search goes out to the internet?

[Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>]

Good Day,

there was some coverage of this a while ago

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/11/winxp_search_assistant_silently_downloads/

Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 4:27:05 PM, you wrote:

Bec> I don't want Windows to go out to Microsoft everytime I attempt
Bec> to perform a search.... Why does it do this???

Bec>  Start your sniffer or monitor your firewall log. 
Bec> On XP, Just start, search for files and folders. 
Bec> Why does your computer go to
Bec> http://sa.windows.com//sasearch/balloon.xsl before you even search for anything?

Bec> GET /sasearch/balloon.xsl HTTP/1.1 
Bec> If-Modified-Since: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:00:00 GMT 
Bec> User-Agent: SCAgent 
Bec> Host: sa.windows.com 


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