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 Jul 28 2006, 03:53 PM
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 The Bookworm  Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150  |
Communicating with FireFox: a209-152-119-232.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com s170.x1.fr webcluster2a.telenet-ops.be planetlab16.Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Communicating with Thunderbird: mirrors.easynews.com (I did just update it. Would this be the update host?) Communicating with vsmon.exe: a209-152-119-254.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com Orange Blossom Windows XP Home SP2 AdAware SE Plus Spyware Blaster SpyBot SpyWare Guard ZoneAlarm Security Suite The Ultimate TroubleShooter Essential NetTools -------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
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Jul 28 2006, 04:29 PM
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Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 3,349 Joined: 14-April 06 Member No.: 64,042 |
Firefox and Thunderbird updated starting Wednesday. 10 to 1 that is what the three items relate to.
Akamai provides many IT services like application hosting, content delivery, and streaming media services, but they are probably best known for their massive distributed computer infrastructure. In lay terms, they have upwards of 15,000+ servers positioned around the globe providing content (software downloads, etc) and media (like QuickTime, RealAudio, or Windows Media files) for their customers (the likes of Apple, GM, MTV, Department of Defense, IBM, Microsoft, Monster.com, Yahoo!, Adobe...). So for instance, say your company developed a web site/application for use by your customers. On this website, you wanted to make available a few hundred moderate length video clips. If you intend your website to have even moderate traffic, you will quickly realize the potentially prohibitive time/energy/costs involved with building an infrastructure capable of delivering this content - to make those files available reliably you'll need lots of bandwidth, reliable servers with a backup strategy, redundant power and A/C, lots of RAID-ed disk space, finely tuned security precautions, lots of manpower to watch over everything, and on and on and on. This is where Akamai comes in. They have the infrastructure already in place to deliver these services. Companies can save money by having Akamai deliver their content for them. Akamai has become so ubiquitous that it's hard to go a day without (perhaps unknowingly) pulling at least some content of one of their servers, as you have discovered! |
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Jul 28 2006, 09:53 PM
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The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
QUOTE(buddy215 @ Jul 28 2006, 05:29 PM)  Firefox and Thunderbird updated starting Wednesday. 10 to 1 that is what the three items relate to. ....... Akamai provides many IT services like application hosting, content delivery, and streaming media services, but they are probably best known for their massive distributed computer infrastructure. This is where Akamai comes in. They have the infrastructure already in place to deliver these services. Companies can save money by having Akamai deliver their content for them. Akamai has become so ubiquitous that it's hard to go a day without (perhaps unknowingly) pulling at least some content of one of their servers, as you have discovered! Thanks, that's cool  buddy215, but what about these?QUOTE(Orange Blossom @ Jul 28 2006, 04:53 PM) Communicating with FireFox: s170.x1.fr webcluster2a.telenet-ops.be planetlab16.Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Thanks for the info., I wasn't able to find anything on a google search. Orange Blossom 
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Jul 29 2006, 07:43 PM
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Zone Labs uses akamai to deliver updates, new trash signatures for virus scans and so on for Zone Alarm products.
Microsoft uses akamai to do updates, as far as I recall. |
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Jul 29 2006, 08:50 PM
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The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
Thanks for the info. tos226.
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Aug 10 2006, 02:02 PM
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QUOTE(tos226 @ Jul 29 2006, 08:43 PM) Zone Labs uses akamai to deliver updates, new trash signatures for virus scans and so on for Zone Alarm products. This is my problem too. From time to time, completely randomly, my Zone Alarm opens two or more ports to Akamai server and I am unable to close or filter them. They do nothing bad... but whenever are those ports to Akamai opened, EVERY program I run causes a "domain" packet to be sent to network - resulting in slowdown of said program's startup. I am furious! I tried everything to make it stop: tried to block Akamai server in hosts file, to block it directly in Zone alarm, tried to find any option to turn this feature off... no avail. I thought firewalls are supposed to STOP my computer from sending things to network, not to send things themselves. I'll delete Zone Alarm and demand my money back. :-/ |
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Aug 10 2006, 02:29 PM
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The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
I use ZoneAlarm and my programs don't do this when ZoneAlarm communicates with the internet. Let's check your settings for the other programs in the firewall. You may have allowed them to send stuff when they shouldn't.
Restore the ZoneAlarm window. First let's check your general program settings. Click on Programs Control on the left side, then click on the Main tab on the upper right side. I have Program control set to medium and SmartDefense Advisor set to medium. I also have a dot by On under Internet lock. Now, click on the programs tab at the top right. This will show a listing of programs and their permissions. An example: SpywareBlaster permissons has been set by the system. There is a green check under "trusted" and "internet" under the access column, and red x's under "trusted" and "internet" under the server column, and there is a red x under send e-mail. This program never tries to send stuff to the internet except when I update the program. It is possible that you have allowed program to act as servers that don't need to. One by one, right click on a program name that is causing you problems. Click on remove: The system will then automatically set the program permission settings the next time the program runs. Do not remove multiple programs from the list or immediately one after another as this can cause a system crash, especially if those programs are currently in use. Hope this helps, Orange Blossom -------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
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Aug 10 2006, 03:28 PM
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Thank you for your time and willingness to help. I tried as you said, but it doesn't stop. It seems to be feature of new version of ZA Pro. It is definitely related to ZA, because when I shut down ZA, all these requests to network are stopped and all ports to Akamai are closed.
----------------------------------- EDIT: Seems I found a solution. I turned off a SmartDefense Advisor *completely* - and all network requests stopped. No opened port to Akamai in sight, either. I guess I can do without SmartDefense Advisor; it is weird though, because I was using ZA for more than three years now and I never encountered any trouble with SDA before... This post has been edited by bg fun: Aug 10 2006, 03:48 PM |
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