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Question about explorer.exe

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Why does explorer.exe have a TCP connection to Microsoft (65.52.108.217)?
 
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It's Microsoft's OS, it'll do pretty much whatever they want it to do and if that means "calling home" now and again well, you're only going to be able to do so much about it. ;)
 
the google says it belongs to bingbot. you got bing search or toolbar or something like that?
 
Snowknight26 said:
Where did you see that IP listed? netstat?
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No, I first noticed it yesterday when I ran speccy and looked at Network and then Current TCP Connections and it showed explorer.exe but not the IP address it was connected to. Then later I ran Resource Monitor and it too showed TCP connection to explorer.exe and also listed the IP address so did a whois on the address and it came back Microsoft.

I don't use bing and have default search engine set to duckduckgo.
 
F U, I'm just curious to know why and not because I am paranoid about it. I can easily block it with a firewall if I so choose.
 
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