McAfee is seeing Windows Explorer (explorer.exe
) establishing connections to external IPs:
Also verified with cmd:
C:\Windows\system32>tasklist|find "explorer.exe"
explorer.exe 4052 Console 1 305,072 K
C:\Windows\system32>netstat -anob|find "4052"
TCP 192.168.1.19:19049 111.221.124.106:443 ESTABLISHED 4052
C:\Windows\system32>
Why is Windows Explorer connecting to external IPs?
Is it OK to block Windows Explorer from all ports (e.g. with a firewall like McAfee / Kaspersky) or would that lead to system instability?
• Tested on Win 8.1 basic.