I know that CuteFTP sends data to Aureate about applications installed on
your machine, directory struction, operating system, version,
history.. etc..
We installed CuteFTP on one of our machines behind our firewall at home
and sniffed all the traffic.. It gets pretty detailed. There is software
to disable these features. And since this incident I've learned to read
end user license agreements very closely.
*grin*
Greg Poirier Network Abuse Onion
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [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?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Daniel Duguay
> Systems Administrator
> Firewall and Secure Systems Development
> * Tel: (613) 944-2351
> * Fax: (613) 944-0044
> * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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