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Re: is it normal for bash.exe, sh.exe, and uname.exe to IPC with svchost.exe
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:45:54 -0600
- Subject: Re: is it normal for bash.exe, sh.exe, and uname.exe to IPC with svchost.exe
- References: <eb25d3ee-7468-3886-4167-024d2efb9586@molconn.com> <874l7piedv.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
On 2019-03-26 14:12, Achim Gratz wrote:
> LMH writes:
>> Is there some reason I should be expecting these processes to talk to
>> svchost.exe?
> If your machine is in a domain they will contact the DC to get user and
> group information via standard Windows facilities.
Could it also be Windows instrumentation trying to send info about what's going
on the system?
I know there's a lot of stuff network admins like to block from leaving Windows
systems so that they have some hope of seeing real problems amongst the useful
traffic.
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