On Sunday 15 August 2010 21:34:33 Dale wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with
> Yahoo at these addresses:
> 
> cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com
> 
> rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com
> 
> I thought it was Kopete getting some info, profile pics maybe, from the
> server.  Thing is, it does this for a really long time.  It is also
> SENDING data as well.  I have no idea why it is doing this or what it is
> sending.  I closed the Kopete app but the data still carries on.   This
> "transfer" has been going for a while now and the only way I can stop it
> is to stop the network, wait a minute or two for it to time out and then
> restart the network.
> 
> Anybody have any idea what the heck this is?  Is Yahoo up to something?
> Some new security issue that I haven't heard of?

What does your netstat show with respect to ports being used and what does 
tcpdump/tcpflow show?  If it is Yahoo, you should see things that are relevant 
and hopefully make sense.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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