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Jamie Bowden wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Mark wrote:
> 
> 
>>I notice in the last 2 weeks or so a new entry in my Sarg-Squid reports,
>>google toolbar traffic, may be for checking for updates or tracking
>>surfing habits, it seems to rotate one hour later each night.  Has
>>anyone else noticed this in their reports?
> 
> 
> Read the manual.  Google Toolbar, Deskbar, and Desktop Search all
> automaticly update themselves on a regular basis.  Google Toolbar sends
> back anonymous stats on your web usage if you chose to leave it enabled
> (and it asks you during installation if you wish to leave that feature on
> or turn it off).

Yes. and watch tcpdump when you do a search of your windows harddisk 
from explorer.   Windows sends data on your search to sa.windows.com; a 
good candidate to block on the firewall or reroute to localhost with 
Windows\hosts (at least until they change it to phone home somewhere 
else).