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FBI, svchost.exe, and akamai.net
Name: wayne russell Date: August 31, 2003 at 10:45:48 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD K6 3D processor/384 M
Comment:
Dear Group:
I use 'Active Ports' to monitor inbound and outbound TCP and UDP packets.
I notice sometime that for a few seconds svchost.exe connects to a remote port and receiving packets from akamaitechnologies.net.
I did some research and found this site is a front for the FBI.
Name: gabep Date: August 31, 2003 at 11:10:11 Pacific
Reply:
You must have autoupdate enabled. akamai.net is part of the windows update url,
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Response Number 2
Name: darren Date: September 10, 2003 at 19:59:56 Pacific
Reply:
Not FBI...just ISP :-P Check out the info. I also translated out some of the data packets with a sniffer and it is basicaly doing DNS queries and reverse lookups...ISP stuff.
Pac Bell Internet Services PBI-NET-8 (NET-64-160-0-0-1) 64.160.0.0 - 64.175.255.255 Akamai Farm - Cache Servers for Pleasanton SBCIS-101125-16275 (NET-64-164-108-128-1) 64.164.108.128 - 64.164.108.255
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2003-09-10 19:15 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
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Response Number 3
Name: Darren Date: September 10, 2003 at 20:32:29 Pacific
Reply:
Ahh...I spoke too soon!...it's a little more than just simple DNS queries...but still harmless. It is a web caching farm. See link to Akimai Technologies and how they work with ISP's.
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Name: wayne russell
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