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Big Booger
June 7th, 2002, 07:46 AM
http://xp.mcafee.com/

I dunt know why... I dont have any mcafee programs installed...
I opened up netstat in command prompt and it connects to this site....
ANyone else experiencing this?
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babis
June 7th, 2002, 08:20 AM
Possible cause(s):
Hotmail, Window Messenger,etc..

More info here (http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30671&perpage=20&highlight=netstat&pagenumber=1)

solution by mooker:
To get rid of that, go to Tools/Options in MSN Messenger, and then click on the Privacy tab, and check the box that says "This is a shared computer so don't display my tabs." Restart Messenger, and you're all set

Big Booger
June 7th, 2002, 09:02 AM
Thanks babis,
You're mighty handy!
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kempouk
July 5th, 2002, 02:30 AM
hmm don't msn use Mc-fee as its hot-mail av software, i think it does ,
when i send hot-mail it always is scanned with msn mc-fee,

Big Booger
July 5th, 2002, 09:20 AM
kempouk you are absolutely correct. And if I had been using hotmail or MSN at the time, I might have thought differently. But this was logged on my Firewall, and I wasn't using MSN nor Hotmail...
It was very wierd..
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kempouk
July 5th, 2002, 11:00 AM
seems strange eh , perhaps they just like spying on people, for a change lol,
anyway i disabled mine as well ,