On 8/6/12 10:13 AM, Brian Chabot wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Michael ODonnell > <michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: >> is there *ANY* >> legitimate reason why anything should be attempting to connect >> from Facebook to my home IP address, which offers no such >> services? I assume, of course, that the answer is "No". > The *only* reason Facebook should be contacting you this way is if you > have an app set to pull data from there. > > Possibilities that come to mind include RSS feeds and HTML embeds in > Page info plus, of course, any custom stuff you may have written. > > It's *just* a home connection? No services? Nuke the connection attempt. > If you're on a network with DHCP (most residential connections), it's possible someone else wrote an app that points to a DNS name that points to your IP address. Still safe to nuke it.
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