Question about explorer.exe

[rezerekted]

Why does explorer.exe have a TCP connection to Microsoft (65.52.108.217)?

 

[rezerekted]

No one knows?

BTW, this is on Win8.1 and not Win10. I have auto update off, do not use their AV either so what could it be for?

Questions but no answer from Microsoft.

explorer.exe connects to an ip address, could be a spyware?

Here someone claims it is for onedrive/skydrive, which I have disabled so nope, not that. I do not use live tiles either. I can find no good reason and no real explanation but I will sniff this out eventually.

Explorer.exe Permanent TCP Connection to wns.windows.com

 

[Deleted member 245375]

It's Microsoft's OS, it'll do pretty much whatever they want it to do and if that means "calling home" now and again well, you're only going to be able to do so much about it.

 

[Snowknight26]

Where did you see that IP listed? netstat?

 

[pendragon1]

the google says it belongs to bingbot. you got bing search or toolbar or something like that?

 

[bigdogchris]

Why does explorer.exe have a TCP connection to Microsoft (65.52.108.217)?

Just guessing but could it be because OneDrive is integrated into Explorer?

 

[rezerekted]

Where did you see that IP listed? netstat?

No, I first noticed it yesterday when I ran speccy and looked at Network and then Current TCP Connections and it showed explorer.exe but not the IP address it was connected to. Then later I ran Resource Monitor and it too showed TCP connection to explorer.exe and also listed the IP address so did a whois on the address and it came back Microsoft.

I don't use bing and have default search engine set to duckduckgo.

 

[B00nie]

Quick! Close teh intnernets theyre stealing your pron!

 

[rezerekted]

F U, I'm just curious to know why and not because I am paranoid about it. I can easily block it with a firewall if I so choose.