Many Microsoft / Odd Utilities try to randomly access remote IPs

I have recently been instructed to activate custom rule set of Comodo firewall to be able to monitor what apps are trying to access the internet .

To the irony I realized a huge number of connections are being done via programs that aren't really known to be any related to the internet either try to randomly access the internet or on triggering .

For instance on bringing up the Windows Settings App (SystemSettings.exe) , it instantly attempts to connect to a remote ip , followed by Runtime Broker (RuntimeBroker.exe) that attempts to access a different remote ip .

Then TaskHostW.exe does it in accelerated intervals , BackgroundTaskHost does it pretty often , SpeechModelDownload.exe does it pretty often too despite I don't even have Cortana enabled .

And now for the cuteness of all seems WerMgr.exe and WerFault.exe does it like every 2 minutes that seems like a nag , on revising MS Event viewer I realize this is because of a COM 10016 error Microsoft itself instruct to neglect .

Apart from Microsoft , despite that I made sure I stripped all bloatware of the NVidia driver , the lovely control panel app enjoys connecting to nvidia every hour for no particular reason . Google Chrome Update task does that too hourly .

Now while we can relate the non Microsoft apps to be obsessive about making sure you are up to date even though in a too spooky rate now what about Microsoft ? This crazy rate of traffic multiplied by the amount of users are petabytes of useless blahs jamming the internet daily .

But then apart , why would Microsoft wanna know live data about Windows Settings ? Is personal settings damn it ! You don't even sync it elsewhere !

P.S Comodo does check if those were signed and official apps so no this isn't spoofy trojans case , or is it

Cheers

First I'd like to thank you in post because I can't do it in reps since you were last I thanked , I know that the norm is to trust Microsoft , my concern is that they abuse our trust , why so much connections , i am sure no one even peek at the data they collect so why the bother :)

Actually i am concerned at this for example :
AppHostRegistrationVerifier.exe is frequently trying to connect to a Twitter IP despite I don't have a twitter account :)
DeviceCensus.exe is trying to connect to some Microsoft branch in Ireland .
And now that I followed your link to disable error reporting and used the registry fix brinks provide to stop error reporting to microsoft the frequency of how wermgr.exe triggers became 30 seconds instead of two minutes trying to contact a Microsoft Azure site .
The frequency of all these attempt is enormous . the log is filling that i'm starting to believe i should reset the log file every now and then before i fill my hard drive . what's with Microsoft and all the enormous amount of data it keeps sending .

nIGHTmAYOR said:

Actually i am concerned at this for example :
AppHostRegistrationVerifier.exe is frequently trying to connect to a Twitter IP despite I don't have a twitter account :)
DeviceCensus.exe is trying to connect to some Microsoft branch in Ireland .
And now that I followed your link to disable error reporting and used the registry fix brinks provide to stop error reporting to microsoft the frequency of how wermgr.exe triggers became 30 seconds instead of two minutes trying to contact a Microsoft Azure site .
The frequency of all these attempt is enormous . the log is filling that i'm starting to believe i should reset the log file every now and then before i fill my hard drive . what's with Microsoft and all the enormous amount of data it keeps sending .

You can view most of the sent data using Diagnostic Data Viewer.

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nIGHTmAYOR said:

Actually i am concerned at this for example :
AppHostRegistrationVerifier.exe is frequently trying to connect to a Twitter IP despite I don't have a twitter account :)
DeviceCensus.exe is trying to connect to some Microsoft branch in Ireland .
And now that I followed your link to disable error reporting and used the registry fix brinks provide to stop error reporting to microsoft the frequency of how wermgr.exe triggers became 30 seconds instead of two minutes trying to contact a Microsoft Azure site .
The frequency of all these attempt is enormous . the log is filling that i'm starting to believe i should reset the log file every now and then before i fill my hard drive . what's with Microsoft and all the enormous amount of data it keeps sending .

You can view most of the sent data using Diagnostic Data Viewer.

RK1997 said:

You can view most of the sent data using Diagnostic Data Viewer.

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You can view most of the sent data using Diagnostic Data Viewer.

if you have more to elaborate on the how to please elaborate .

nIGHTmAYOR said:

if you have more to elaborate on the how to please elaborate .

Find it in Settings - Privacy.

Turn on "View Diagnostic Data" and open it.