* WARNING: Windows XP, without networking being installed, talking to the internet !

[Geoff Sykes]

Duaine --

By design, Win XP is a networking operating system. Your network and the
internet are quite separate. Your cable modem is talking to the internet and
your router. Computers plugged in to your router are always talking to the
router and to each other but only those set up to access the internet will
be talking to the cable modem. At the very least you should have the MS
firewall activated on your computers. However, the fact that you have a
router in place provides you with a hardware firewall which is much more
powerful. Make sure it is set up correctly and active. 

Don't worry about the router lights. They just indicate the network is
working. The cable modem lights indicate that it is talking to the internet
and to those computers hooked into the router that are set up for internet
access. Make sure your router, and it's firewall, is configured correctly,
and that you have adequate virus protection and you should be alright.

-- Geoff Sykes
-- Assoc. Los Angeles





-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Hechler Family
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:12 PM
To: pianotech; pianotech-ot
Subject: * WARNING: Windows XP, without networking being installed, talking
to the internet !


WARNING:

I needed to reinstall Win XP. Not needing internet access, I installed 
Win XP and did not setup internet access.

Guess what ????

Everytime I booted, I saw blinking lights on my router (which is 
connected to my cable modem). So, that means windows is accessing the 
internet for some reason.

What I'll probably never know !!!

I even went back in and checked the settings, and -nothing- was setup.

Bottom line: It appears that windows is going to talk to the internet no 
matter what your settings are (security, privacy, etc)

-- 
Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild
Reed Organ Society Member
St. Louis, MO 63034
(314) 838-5587
dahechler at charter.net
www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com