On Sunday 15 August 2010 22:55:23 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with > > Yahoo at these addresses: > > > > cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com > > > > rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com > > > > I thought it was Kopete getting some info, profile pics maybe, from the > > server. Thing is, it does this for a really long time. It is also > > SENDING data as well. I have no idea why it is doing this or what it is > > sending. I closed the Kopete app but the data still carries on. This > > "transfer" has been going for a while now and the only way I can stop it > > is to stop the network, wait a minute or two for it to time out and then > > restart the network. > > > > Anybody have any idea what the heck this is? Is Yahoo up to something? > > > > Some new security issue that I haven't heard of? > > I think it's normal. > > The first address is one of their pool of messaging servers and the > second is a web server, probably like you said for retrieving > additional info. The sending of data could be the http request, or > updating your status/picture/whatever kopete may be doing. You could > try blocking it and see what breaks. :)
Dale, It could also be a weather map, or any number of widgets that get data from the intartubes. netstat with -p can help track down the app that has the connection open -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
