This white paper provides information about the communication that flows between components in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and sites on the Internet, and describes steps to take to limit, control, or prevent that communication in an organization with many users. The white paper is designed to assist you, the administrator, in planning strategies for deploying and maintaining Windows 2000 SP3 in a way that helps provide an appropriate level of security for your organization?s networked assets. Read More for details and download. Controlling Device Manager to limit the flow of information to and from the Internet ...You can prevent the Internet from being accessed through Device Manager by disabling Windows Update using the following Group Policy setting: Remove access to use all Windows Update features. In the Group Policy Object Editor, this policy setting is located in User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsWindows Update. (To find more information about the Group Policy Object Editor, see Appendix B, "Resources for Learning About Group Policy.")... How Event Viewer communicates with sites on the Internet ...In order to access the relevant Help information provided by the link in the Event Properties dialog box, the user sends the information listed about the event. The collected data is confined to what is needed to retrieve more information about the event from the Microsoft Knowledge Base. User names and e-mail addresses, names of files unrelated to the logged event, computer addresses, and any other forms of personally identifiable information are not collected. ... Download the white paper here.