Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 14:44:40 CDT 2008
You could set your firewall software to require notification for all outgoing traffic. Then anything wants to talk to the outside world, it asks for permission. GK On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Tina Norris Fields <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I really don't like automatic updates, for a number of reasons, my own > paranoia being one. But, also, when the computer takes off to go see if > there's a new version of Java, or Windows, or a new driver for the > mouse, or whatever, it often causes other running processes to delay - > like recognizing my typing keystrokes, for instance - which is very > frustrating. So, for the most part, I turn them off and choose my own > time to go look for updates. > > Not all my automatic stuff is off, though - heck, you have to have some > level of automatic update on in order to access Windows Update when you > want to - so I have it set to notify me but not download. Other stuff > is still making automatic trips out and about the Internet, and I don't > know who or what it is. How do I look to see which of my programs and > devices is calling home? > > Thanks for teaching me. > Tina > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com