There is a similar problem with SmartScreen, also courtesy by Microsoft. You, basically, send an email with a link to someone in Europe only to see it being ac

There is a similar problem with SmartScreen, also courtesy by Microsoft. You, basically, send an email with a link to someone in Europe only to see it being accessed from some random US IP that doesn't even have a PTR record. With some effort this IP can be traced back to SmartScreen, but what's strange is that it sometimes takes hours for the URL to get hit from such IP. This doesn't make any sense whatsoever, because SmartScreen is supposed to be a pro-active defense against phishing and malware, so it should really be scanning new links in real-time, upon reception. This scenario is arguably even more troublesome than Skype's snooping, because it's not possible to predict beforehand if the mail will end up getting SmartScreen'd. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen