To: zeugma
“I might just block all microsoft ip address blocks from my firewall “
You’ll have to do that from your router; multiple reports say these telemetry programs have hard-coded IPs AND they bypass both the OS firewall and the hosts file.
35 posted on
09/02/2015 8:55:32 AM PDT by
catnipman
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To: catnipman
You’ll have to do that from your router; multiple reports say these telemetry programs have hard-coded IPs AND they bypass both the OS firewall and the hosts file. actually, that's what I meant. Though in my case, i can blacklist it from the host that is running the windows VM as well with iptables.
41 posted on
09/02/2015 1:10:45 PM PDT by
zeugma
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