Is this still goign on with ICQ turned off?

Angel Stewart writes:

> I dunno what the hell is going on.
> 
> I have IRIS network monitor running..and I am seeing constant traffic to 
> 205.188.8.63 
> Now I have a Direct PC setup..so maybe this is some upstream server. But why the 
> hell would all my email addresses be sent over the network???
> I'm not sending email to any of these people. 
> 
> I have NAV 2003...and I have ADAware and Spybot....nothing registeres spyware or a 
> virus on my machine.
> What the hell's going on?
> 
> An example of the packet is:
> ..¡.)[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.E,..*..v.<.......‰......,..F       [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> .....20..F    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Another one is
> ..¡.)[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.Bú..*..u.H.......Œ.....:8..F       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> What...the...hell..:-\
> 
> I just got back WHOIS data.
> That server belongs to AOL.
> Is this a 'feature' of ICQ???
> 0_0 ???????
> 
> It could be...ICQ outlook bar that checks ICQ for people's ICQ numbers based on 
> emails you receive or I guess ones that are stored in your address book.
> I would assume this isn't the cause of the sytem performance problems I've been 
> having...but it is certainly..well..alarming.
> 
> -Gel
> 
> 
> 
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