duncanblackthorne Posted June 3, 2007 Report Posted June 3, 2007 Why is it that when I'm running uTorrent and have a web browser open (especially Firefox), that the browser starts making connections to addresses like deploy.akamaitechnologies.com and unknown.xeex.net, but there is NO active browsing window in the web browser? Unless I get some sort of reasonable explanation about this, I can't see any way to interpret it as anything other than a hijack of the computer..
tjobo Posted June 3, 2007 Report Posted June 3, 2007 Akamai is a worldwide caching/redundancy service, its not spyware.Many websites, including microsoft.com / google.com all use akadns and akamai services for load distribution, this means their site can theoretically "never go down" because the site is running on a lot of servers around the world.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai
Ultima Posted June 3, 2007 Report Posted June 3, 2007 *shrug* I've never seen that happen, even after staring at TCPView for 10 minutes.
duncanblackthorne Posted June 3, 2007 Author Report Posted June 3, 2007 *shrug* it comes and goes.Is there some sort of integration between uTorrent and web browsers, perhaps because of uTorrent's built-in torrent search function? I've been experimenting very extensively with uTorrent and any web browser running simultaneously to reproduce this problem and had been able to do so reliably, even if the "phantom" TCP/IP connections were different last night than they were the day before; removing all the search engine address settings in the Advanced tab seems to have stopped this from happening (so far).
Ultima Posted June 3, 2007 Report Posted June 3, 2007 No integration at all :/ It doesn't touch *any* registry setting besides(1) installation entry for Add/Remove (if you install)(2) startup entry (if you allow it to start up)(3) .torrent file association (if you allow it to associate itself)In short, µTorrent doesn't touch *any* integral system settings without your permission. You can probably check RegMon to make sure of that too.
duncanblackthorne Posted June 3, 2007 Author Report Posted June 3, 2007 Hmmm....Some of the research I've done on this suggests that there is a way to create "fake" torrents that can exploit some sort of security hole in the torrent system. Know anything about this?The funny thing, is that I first noticed this when I was seeding Fedora Core 7 :-/
Ultima Posted June 3, 2007 Report Posted June 3, 2007 The exploit only existed in 1.6 build 474 (and maybe earlier), but was fixed somewhere in between 474 and the beta 1.6.1 build 483.
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