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Posted by Frank on 05/22/07 15:35
On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:51:15 GMT, in 'rec.video.desktop',
in article <Firefox has build in copy right spy>,
Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Well I found this typing 'netstat', allmost all the time I found
>tcp 0 0 my.ip.address:40337 po-in-f91.google.co:www ESTABLISHED
>
>So Firefox is all by itself connecting to po-in-f91.google.com
Indeed, it is. I've noticed this also. It makes me want to put Firefox
in the spyware category, but I haven't had the time to actually
capture and analyze the traffic, so it might be quite benign for all I
know. OTOH, I still don't like the fact that it establishes this
connection to begin with. In fact, I very strongly resent it.
>I have observed this for a few weeks, wondering if it had anything to do with my searches using google.
>However it made no sense...
>So I 'googled' for that address, and found:
> http://www.spotlight.de/zforen/sec/m/sec-1173099721-22371.html
>
>OK, added the following to my Linux iptables firewall:
>-A INPUT -s 68.249.93.0/255.255.255.0 -j DROP
>-A INPUT -s 72.14.253.0/255.255.255.0 -j DROP
>-A INPUT -s 94.6.194.0/255.255.255.0 -j DROP
>-A INPUT -s 130.75.2.0/255.255.255.0 -j DROP
>
># from firefox ug-in-f104.google.com
># ug-in-f91.google.com
># ug-in-f93.google.com
># po-in-f91.google.com
># po-in-f93.google.com
>
># markmonitor.com
># MarkMonitor: Anti-Phishing, Fraud Prevention, Brand Protection & Domain Management
>-A OUTPUT -s 68.249.93.0/255.255.255.0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
>-A OUTPUT -s 72.14.253.0/255.255.255.0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
>-A OUTPUT -s 94.6.194.0/255.255.255.0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
>-A OUTPUT -s 130.75.2.0/255.255.255.0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
>
>So, Firefox is a SPY.
You want to know the sad part, Opera appears to do something similar.
And Netscape is even worse.
>Well I violate no copyright, but spying and access without permission IS a crime.
>Somebody sue those bastards.
If only I had as many lawyers as Google does. :)
--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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