Re: ot - forced connections to softlayer.com

2009-12-08 Thread Dana
true; I remember going through a security log wondering why the heck this machine kept connecting to google, and finally figuring out it was an addon ;) On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > Dana, > > This is my dev machine at home, not production. I'm not sure what > add-

Re: ot - forced connections to softlayer.com

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Dana, This is my dev machine at home, not production. I'm not sure what add-on it was, but it was trying really, really, really hard to connect somewhere. As I was removing a number of add-ons at the time, I'm not sure which was the problem. It's interesting to watch exactly what a browser conne

Re: ot - forced connections to softlayer.com

2009-12-07 Thread Dana
what's the add-on? Maybe it's trying to compute whatever it does? Why do you have addons on your production machine anyway? Just asking... On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > Dana, > > The Trojan was on Judith's machine and I got it off. Nas

Re: ot - forced connections to softlayer.com

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Dana, The Trojan was on Judith's machine and I got it off. Nasty. This is something that comes on only with firefox and goes in/out over http. It looks like it had something to do with an add-on that I just removed. Add-on gone, requests gone. Now I get to find out what add-on is associated with

Re: ot - forced connections to softlayer.com

2009-12-07 Thread Dana
is it a specific ip address or a range? On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Dana wrote: > somebody wants your system for its botnet? Did you ever get rid of that > trojan? softlayer is a big data center. Wonder who they have pissed off. > What ports is it trying to use? > > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 a

Re: ot - forced connections to softlayer.com

2009-12-07 Thread Dana
somebody wants your system for its botnet? Did you ever get rid of that trojan? softlayer is a big data center. Wonder who they have pissed off. What ports is it trying to use? On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > I'm watching my system try i

ot - forced connections to softlayer.com

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm watching my system try it's best to connect to www.softlayer.com (which I have blocked). It keeps rotating the ports to use and I have no clue what this is associated with or why its happening. Anyone have a clue? Thanks -- Michael ~~~