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[H D Moore <hdm () SECUREAUSTIN COM>]

So thats what those mini-ping floods my web servers keep getting are.
Every morning for a couple hours I get pinged by random dialup and
broadband users, I was starting to get worried there was a massive DDoS
gearing up ;)  Any more infomration about exactly what version of IE/AD
does this would be helpful.  Thanks!


-HD


"Scott D. Yelich" wrote:
> One thing I have noticed about the PC, with winblows, is that it seems
> that just about every single new program I run across wants to connect
> back out to the internet.  To me, it's VERY scary to reboot my PC and
> see zone alarm come up with (to me what seems like) random programs
> wanting to connect out to the net.  I'm sure this has been mentioned
> before,  but it seems like either IE or active-desktop or something
> wants to  ping like the last 10 visited URLs upon start/launch.  It's
> kind of silly to be able to write a script to monitor your web logs to
> know when a friend/stalker has signed on.
>
> Is anyone else growing alarmed by this seemingly new trend?