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On Sunday 15 August 2010 22:55:23 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hi folks, |
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> > I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with |
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> > Yahoo at these addresses: |
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> > cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com |
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> > rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com |
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> > I thought it was Kopete getting some info, profile pics maybe, from the |
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> > server. Thing is, it does this for a really long time. It is also |
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> > SENDING data as well. I have no idea why it is doing this or what it is |
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> > sending. I closed the Kopete app but the data still carries on. This |
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> > "transfer" has been going for a while now and the only way I can stop it |
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> > is to stop the network, wait a minute or two for it to time out and then |
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> > restart the network. |
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> > Anybody have any idea what the heck this is? Is Yahoo up to something? |
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> > Some new security issue that I haven't heard of? |
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> I think it's normal. |
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> The first address is one of their pool of messaging servers and the |
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> second is a web server, probably like you said for retrieving |
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> additional info. The sending of data could be the http request, or |
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> updating your status/picture/whatever kopete may be doing. You could |
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> try blocking it and see what breaks. :) |
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Dale, |
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It could also be a weather map, or any number of widgets that get data from |
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the intartubes. |
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netstat with -p can help track down the app that has the connection open |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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