The blinking lights on your router simply mean that your router is connected to the Internet. If by router you mean cable modem or DSL modem - if it's powered up it's connected to the Internet, and will be sending/receiving packets. If the lights on the back of your computer are blinking (at the Ethernet/RJ-45 port) then your computer is sending/receiving packets. Even this though, does not indicate that the traffic is Internet bound. It does phone home though, and worse than that - if you're not protected by either a hardware or software firewall, other computers are almost certainly communicating with yours. This is the true danger, not Microsoft's peering eye. Though, that does feel a bit like Sauron leering at you doesn't it? Jonathan Finger RPT
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