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Like you need another reason to distrust Microsoft.
While sitting idle tonight (displaying a page I'm building locally, actually), I caught IE trying to make an outbound connection without my permission:
What the fuck, you say? What is that IP address, and what the hell are they doing on port 4793? Indeed. Here's what it resolves to:
OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre
OrgID: RIPE
Address: P.O. Box 10096
City: Amsterdam
StateProv:
PostalCode: 1001EB
Country: NL
ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43
NetRange: 81.0.0.0 - 81.255.255.255
CIDR: 81.0.0.0/8
NetName: 81-RIPE
NetHandle: NET-81-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC
NameServer: NS-PRI.RIPE.NET
NameServer: NS3.NIC.FR
NameServer: SUNIC.SUNET.SE
NameServer: NS-EXT.ISC.ORG
NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: SEC3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in
Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
Comment: the RIPE database.
RegDate:
Updated: 2005-07-27
What the hell is IE doing trying to talk to Amsterdam behind my back, you ask? Hell if I know. Smells like Microsoft to me. Low Risk my ass.
And what on Earth am I doing using IE in the first place, you rightfully ask? Web development, of course. Got to make sure my creations work with this blasphemous piece of shit, as well as real browsers.
While sitting idle tonight (displaying a page I'm building locally, actually), I caught IE trying to make an outbound connection without my permission:
What the fuck, you say? What is that IP address, and what the hell are they doing on port 4793? Indeed. Here's what it resolves to:
OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre
OrgID: RIPE
Address: P.O. Box 10096
City: Amsterdam
StateProv:
PostalCode: 1001EB
Country: NL
ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43
NetRange: 81.0.0.0 - 81.255.255.255
CIDR: 81.0.0.0/8
NetName: 81-RIPE
NetHandle: NET-81-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC
NameServer: NS-PRI.RIPE.NET
NameServer: NS3.NIC.FR
NameServer: SUNIC.SUNET.SE
NameServer: NS-EXT.ISC.ORG
NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: SEC3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in
Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
Comment: the RIPE database.
RegDate:
Updated: 2005-07-27
What the hell is IE doing trying to talk to Amsterdam behind my back, you ask? Hell if I know. Smells like Microsoft to me. Low Risk my ass.
And what on Earth am I doing using IE in the first place, you rightfully ask? Web development, of course. Got to make sure my creations work with this blasphemous piece of shit, as well as real browsers.