What is abuse.net?

MosesPresley

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What is abuse.net?

October 12, 2005, 15:13

My firewall keeps picking up efforts by my computer to contact: 68.87.64.196 and similar addresses, usually when I connect to poly. This appears to some sort of internet abuse reporting site. I don't "abuse" the internet afaik. Can anyone tell me what this is about and how I can stop my computer from trying to contact this site constantly?

Thanks

Last edited by MosesPresley; October 12, 2005, 15:19.

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Atahualpa

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October 12, 2005, 15:37

You misread the whois output. It's in the IP range of comcast cable communications.
Open the command window and type "netstat -an" to see all your network connections. Check the port to which you connect to. If it's 6667 or 6666 chances are high that you've got a trojan.

Additionally get a network packet capturer such as ethereal or packetyzer and look at the TCP packets that go there. You can then see what you are transmitting to, there.
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