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_something_ is phoning home upon boot

Started by corrosiv , Jan 22 2011 09:49 AM

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#1 corrosiv

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 09:49 AM

PeerBlock starts at boot-time, and IMMEDIATELY shows blocked accesses to IPs under the "Archer Communications" range.

- how do I identify what process is making this attempted communication, and how said process is started?
- what's the story on Archer? I'll get the actual IP addresses shortly when I restart.

thanks all

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 09:57 AM

Archer Communications

More info. Possibly why it is phoning home. Just what piece of software it is tied to I have no idea. But may give you a starting point.

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Posted 24 January 2011 - 08:22 AM

PeerBlock starts at boot-time, and IMMEDIATELY shows blocked accesses to IPs under the "Archer Communications" range.

- how do I identify what process is making this attempted communication, and how said process is started?
- what's the story on Archer? I'll get the actual IP addresses shortly when I restart.

thanks all

The addresses:
66.235.143.184
...58
...2
...24
...121
...20

whois shows they are all Omniture (marketing/analytics) owned by Adobe.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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Posted 24 January 2011 - 08:25 AM

If you have any Adobe software on your machine then it really comes as no surprise.

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#5 corrosiv

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Posted 24 January 2011 - 08:44 AM

If you have any Adobe software on your machine then it really comes as no surprise.

I'm not surprised that a software package might phone home. What I'm curious about is that there is nothing related to Adobe in my startup lists - I want to know which specific program is doing this and how it is started.

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Posted 24 January 2011 - 08:55 AM

Flash is Adobe.

Also I`ll guess you have Adobe PDF. If you check msconfig I believe you will find at least on instance related to it.

You may also want to check Add\remove for something along the lines of Adobe updater or downloader. Forget the exact name.

Other then Flash. I have not used Adobe products in years for reasons like this and more.

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Posted 24 January 2011 - 09:00 AM

Flash is Adobe.

Also I`ll guess you have Adobe PDF. If you check msconfig I believe you will find at least on instance related to it.

You may also want to check Add\remove for something along the lines of Adobe updater or downloader. Forget the exact name.

Other then Flash. I have not used Adobe products in years for reasons like this and more.

I found the culprit finally. One of this whois-like pages I found on Google mentioned Skype. MS Sysinternals autoruns showed Skype in the Task Scheduler, which I disabled.