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Posted by John Williamson on 05/22/07 15:59
Frank wrote:
> 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.
>
My copy doesn't do this to that address (Version 2.0.0.3, on XP
Professional Service pack 2, connecting from the UK)
It may be that this connection is part of the anti-phishing settings
(Options>Security)
"Check if the site is a forgery"
The equivalent on my system is bu-in-f93.google.com:http It reads either
ESTABLISHED or TIME-WAIT
My system runs on the downloaded database setting. The help file says
that the main anti-Phishing database used is held at Google.
We could always ask the Firefox people. It's supposedly open source.
Tciao for Now!
John.
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