Every time I boot into linux, diald automatically dials up. I tracked this down to the following series of connection attempts:
65.54.131.249:443 equivalent to https://msnialogin.passport.com 207.46.106.191:1863 name = baym-cs191.msgr.hotmail.com 4.65.209.127:1901 4.65.209.127:1975 name = lsanca1-ar22-4-65-209-127.lsanca1.dsl-verizon.net 207.68.171.238:80 equivalent to http://msimg.com This has me very concerned. I recently did a dist-upgrade to the testing distribution, and was expecting that the diald dialup was being triggered by an exim cronjob or something. But this is not e-mail, and it looks very suspicious to me. When I investigate the first link in a web browser, I am taken to https://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf page, probably through forwarding. That is a ".NET Passport Sign-in" page. I am not seeing any automatic connections there through "dctrl" however, just through my mozilla firebird when I investigate. The next three connections (to two hosts) that I see by watching "dctrl" are even more disturbing, since the names that are resolved look like other dialup connections, but not through my ISP. I think that port 1863 might be used by MSN messenger, judging from google searches. Ports 1901 and 1975 don't turn up anything that I recognize. I do not have squid installed. The last conection might have happened after I started investigating things with a web browser. I am not sure. I didn't go there, but it might have been an ad or something. But the "msimg.com" domain might have something to do with micro$loth something or other. I cannot seem to get lsof to tell me anything. Any ideas? Thanks, David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]