X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=ZRqAnWlthsvVte2m y4G3Q6LmQP662mMJDUHFWQaNhC4SmbhFuxKpc5m4k+mUqk8jlDtYiiXBHP+KYuaG XG+bC754HMy8TgYOD30SMK3+n7+JH41I9lZ8zWKfy3y0Ipa6bQ8LB1k0jVsgL3cF ZqBXa9GnXLtOFWm6wbFneDj3rX0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=i8fXoIudyCYJCkyqFVfu+6 cguRE=; b=TI1ow1ytsfeX/1y3DNVYyuXWvzVov33PZC26ocOgCTap/kDYgk1jtj 5jNRCzJvn5yo/YpdZfF/BI86ZxrDEaoMT9C6gPjsHigjvQhu5EcI7eIZW8DDVaL3 CmcxlTjmqgqupXnlQZfoCIfygphaWg1TmuVREw5SrOAp+i6Fjhj34= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=advised, talk X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca Subject: Re: is it normal for bash.exe, sh.exe, and uname.exe to IPC with svchost.exe To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <874l7piedv DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:45:54 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <874l7piedv.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple