RE: [Sheflug] Blocking cookie traffic

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:45, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > Nonsense, I'm afraid.
> 
> I'm beginning to discover that mailing lists are a very good way of
> letting people know just how little I know!

:o)

No-one knows everything.

> There were others such as http.edge.ru4.com and images-eu.amazon.com

Sounds like the same deal, load balancing sites. 

> I have tried ad-aware and also Pestcontrol (which picks up more than
> ad aware) but these don't seem to stop the web requests "happening". 
> Even when I'm not running anything (as far as I can see) Outpost (my
> software firewall) reports svchost trying to connect to the above
> addresses.

I have no real idea how Windows works in this regard, but if you were
browsing and a web page pulled from the servers you named above, then
those requests would be made. In the scenario you outline above, unless
you'd booted up from cold and not run any software, I wouldn't put much
store in it. Unless you actually know what the web request is, you can't
say either way, but trying to access images-eu.amazon.com (for example)
looks pretty benign.

Cheers,

Alex.

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