Safe or hostile?

Anders Brundell · Post by **Anders Brundell** » 12 Apr 2006 11:19 pm

Is Command line utility safe or hostile? It asks for permission to contact IP-address 207.46.236.28 (Spynet2.microsoft.com) so I've permitted it, but now I wonder if that's a mistake.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 13 Apr 2006 9:58 am

Anders;
That IP belongs to Microsoft, and the destination is the website they have setup to collect details about spyware found on Microsoft powered computers that are using Microsoft (formerly Giant) AntiSpyware or Windows Defender.

This was a safe choice you made, and you did the right thing by sharing information about all the spyware that was found on your computer with the rest of the spyware fighting community, worldwide.

Now, about what it found on your computer...

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Anders Brundell · Post by **Anders Brundell** » 13 Apr 2006 11:55 am

Thanks a lot, Wiz!
These days it seemes you can't be enough cautious and suspicious because of all dirty tricks on the web, so thanks again for explaining it all for a semi paranoid pc fumbler.

Anders