Re: [Sheflug] Blocking cookie traffic

[Matthew Collins <matthew [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:45:44PM -0000, Chris Johnson wrote:
> 
> >
> > Akamai are load balancers, so it's likely that if you're
> > blocking them,
> > you've just blocked some very large site, or at least made
> > access to it
> > highly problematic.
> 
> There were others such as http.edge.ru4.com and images-eu.amazon.com

images-eu.amazon.com is the site where amazon.co.uk gets it's images
from. Not only amazon.co.uk, but also sites that host affiliate links to
amazon will access images from that server. I do it myself. 
The other looks like another load balancer site.

It looks like normal web traffic, and nothing to worry about.

> Again I was sure that a cookie file could not track as its just a plain old
> text file.

That's right. There are ways to use cookies to track an individual
person from site to site, but most modern browsers block them now. It is
possible, but a cookie can't make you go and request a web page.

> 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.

The only way you're going to stop those web requests happening, is to
stop browsing web sites. If these are cropping up while this workstation
is browsing the web, then it's nothing to worry about.
If this traffic is cropping up while the machine is not in use, then
that could be a cause for concern.

P.S. svchost is a standard part of windows. It's a process that runs
services. You don't mention what version of windows this is, but I'm
going to guess an NT based version, such is Win2k or XP. Check what
applications run at startup, it could be one of those that is requesting
information from different web sites. Some sort of offline cache maybe?

> 
> 
> I'll carry on trying to sort this but any other suggestions still welcome.
> 
> Chris
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