Jamie Bowden wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Mark wrote:
>
>
>>I notice in the last 2 weeks or so a new entry in my Sarg-Squid reports,
>>google toolbar traffic, may be for checking for updates or tracking
>>surfing habits, it seems to rotate one hour later each night. Has
>>anyone else noticed this in their reports?
>
>
> Read the manual. Google Toolbar, Deskbar, and Desktop Search all
> automaticly update themselves on a regular basis. Google Toolbar sends
> back anonymous stats on your web usage if you chose to leave it enabled
> (and it asks you during installation if you wish to leave that feature on
> or turn it off).
Yes. and watch tcpdump when you do a search of your windows harddisk
from explorer. Windows sends data on your search to sa.windows.com; a
good candidate to block on the firewall or reroute to localhost with
Windows\hosts (at least until they change it to phone home somewhere
else).
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