MS Mediaplayer phoning home

[steve2000x]

Installed mediaplayer 10 'bout 3 weeks ago.

'Active ports' and task mgr networking show it connects to about half a dozen different ips initially when i start it, then apparently each time i play a new song it loads another page from somewhere...

Under options/ security, privacy i've ticked / unticked the relevant boxes but mediaplayer is gonna call the mothership(s) no matter what...

How do I stop it ?

I just wanna play my music/videos in peace.

 

[Zap Brannigan]

Download a free firewall be it ZoneAlarm Sygate whatever. When it asks to connect deny it.

 

[Nithin]

use non-microsoft. vlc, mplayer, coolplayer, foobar2000 etc.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan
Download a free firewall be it ZoneAlarm Sygate whatever. When it asks to connect deny it.

:thumbsup:

 

[onelin]

firewalling is definitely the quick answer, but like Nithin said there are also alternative mediaplayers that are much cooler and don't do those things

 

[steve2000x]

Good advice everybody.

Thanks !

 

[ttown]

lookup the domain names associated with the ip's and then add those to your hosts file

whatever.microsoft.com 127.0.0.1
something.microsoft.com 127.0.0.1
etc.

edit: sorry for the late bump... didn't notice the posts died off