bgmnt Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Every once in a while, I start to see AVG's POP3 scanner notification more frequently than usual, and it tries to connect to some IP that does not belong to my ISP. If I look through AVG's log, I get a bunch of entries that look like:11.7.2006 00:04:01 AutoPOP3(10110): Connection from process 242011.7.2006 00:04:01 AutoPOP3(10110): Connection from 127.0.0.1:480911.7.2006 00:04:01 AutoPOP3(10110): Client connected11.7.2006 00:04:31 AutoPOP3(10110): Cannot connect to ***.247.230.9:11011.7.2006 00:04:31 AutoPOP3(10110): Connect: The operation completed successfully. (0)11.7.2006 00:04:31 AutoPOP3(10110): Client disconnected(I put the *** to mask the IP, and process 2420 in this case is utorrent.exe.)So, my question is why does this happen?Does it just mean that someone out there is using port 110 for their BT client? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Quite a few people on hostile ISPs have to use port 110 to get BitTorrent to work at all.Your AV software's almost certainly being paranoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Just AVG being useless. Someone's using port 110 as their listening port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colindean Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 This seems like it would make a decent FAQ question.I just noticed outgoing pop3 connections and traced them back to μtorrent and got a little concerned. The IP it was connecting to was 85.210.144.192. I tried connecting to it via telnet and got no banners, so I thought that it might be some schmuck with his client port set to 110, which it probably was. If a knew a little more about BitTorrent's client to client protocols, I might have tried something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 It's already in the FAQ.http://utorrent.com/faq.php#Help.21_.C2.B5Torrent_is_sending_e-mails.2Faccessing_the_web.2Fetc.21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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