Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Windows 10 silently establishing connections to host at hk2-dspcdn to download random data

Hi,
Last night I just noticed my Internet connection was slow while trying to play a game and watching some youtube videos. At first I thought it was my ISP, but then I closed all the open applications and while monitoring my network using (resmon), the PC was still downloading data while everything was turned off!

A quick netstat with:
netstat -a | find "EST"

Shows about 10 connections being made to this host:
hk2-dspcdn

A quick google shows this is owned by Microsoft.
Has anyone else experience this?
Does anyone know why Windows 10 is retrieving data silently from this host, it's not a trivial amount either, I logged about 2GB of downloads?

And yes I've got all automatic updates turned off, as well as allow update p2p sharing turned off.

Thanks.


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