[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: me> But why would random IPs be requesting sciencedirect.com at my me> workstation which has nothing to do with it? Even for a worm that me> doesn't make any sense. > > For university wide subsciptions at sciencedirect it is sometimes > necessary to use a special proxy server. If it is only one source IP, > maybe someone has put a typo in his proxy configuration. If it are > many source IPs but from only one or very few networks, maybe there > is a typo in some proxy autoconfiguration file somewhere. Or it is a > braindead attempt to find a misconfigured proxy that has > sciencedirect subscription.
I guess the last possibility is the most likely, since I got the same request (from the same source IP) on three hosts, all on the Princeton network, within 10 minutes. (My home desktop which is also at Princeton, but on a different subnet, didn't get such a message.) Thanks to everyone who answered to clear up the mystery. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]