[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> I am experiencing a plethora of no rule drops from port 1975 - because of
> course there is no rule to permit that traffic through the firewall. It
> seems, from analyis, to be IE5 clients that are attempting to respond to
> aureate, abovenet communications, whatsuch.
>
> Anyone aware if this is hard-coded banner adds in IE5, or is this a myth
> become reality. I heard that these advertizing companies, were gathering
> workstation data secretly via the use of this outbound port.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
I have also noticed this on win95/98/2000 machines running IE5, even when the
browser was not even open.
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Marko
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