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wustat/wutrack.windows.com - What are they Used For?

Posted by Cliff on from the I-spy-bill's-secret-little-eye dept.

An Anonymous Coward asks: "On Windows XP today when i ran 'netstat', I noticed an http connection to wustat.windows.com. Several minutes later when i tried again I had an http connection to wutrack.windows.com. A search on google yields few results. Since windows.com is registered to microsoft, it makes me curious to know what wustat and wutrack stand for and what their purpose is. Is it Windows Usage Statistics/Tracking?" Has anyone else seen this on their XP systems?

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  1. Re:*Looks at the topic by hackwrench · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why? When I'm having so much fun?
    By the way... which clue would that be?

  2. Weird... by ntr0py · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I read this story on the front page, this is what caught my eye...

    microsoft blah blah..
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