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Posted by nappy on 05/22/07 19:05
Could that be Firefox's "Automatically check for updates to search engines"
feature?
What IS that link you provided?
"John Williamson" <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:OvqdnfzzsIjVjs7bnZ2dnUVZ8sqjnZ2d@bt.com...
> 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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