Stopping connections to MSNBOT addresses
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Originally Posted by
dqj999
On my Win 10 installation, TCPVIEW shows an https connection to msnbot-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.search.msn.com
This socket cannot be closed and if you disconnect and re-connect the LAN it comes back a few seconds later.
Should Spybot Anti-Beacon stop this, but if not how do you stop it setting up?
For your info:
I've now stopped these connections by adding a custom firewall rule in Windows Firewall. It drops any attempted connection to any of the msnbot addresses.
This program saved my internet connection
Recently Windows 10 has been using practically ALL of my bandwidth for something. I originally thought i had malware so i used a few programs to check for viruses, malware, etc. but it was the OS using all of my bandwidth. this program brought host process for windows services down to 30KB from 20MB (according to glasswire).
I have donated because of this and plan to donate some more next week.
(I wasn't really sure where to post this so sorry if its in the wrong place :p)
Definitely not playing well with some anti viruses
Guys the extreme CPU usage is to do with it not playing well with some Anti viruses. I recently noticed my CPU sitting at 45% while doing nothing at all just after i installed Webroot anti virus.
Uninstalled it and back to using win defender, (which ain't a bad package teamed up with MalwareBytes) and CPU is back to 1 to 4 % while at idle. so thats defiantly the problem.
Ive explained to Webroot the problem, but i guess its Spyware Anti-Beacon, but its such a good program i wasn't willing to uninstall that (f(*&(ing Microsoft and there spyware.
Hope this helps a few people and clears a few things up but that was my experience.
Dan :bigthumb::bigthumb::bigthumb::bigthumb: