How often are you seeing it?  What model do you have?  I've had my ASA logging 
for a few min now but nothing on port 80 yet.  I'll let it run overnight and 
search the logs.  It could be part of the the spam checking to see if URL's 
imbedded in emails are legit to aid in scoring?  Don't know if they do that 
sort of thing, just grasping at straws.

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From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:25 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Speaking of Barracuda...

Would any of you who have Barracuda spam filters mind checking something for me?

The other day I noticed outbound traffic from my spam appliance to port 80 at 
destinations not owned by Barracuda Networks.  I started a packet cap on my 
firewall and got some very interesting results.  In addition to traffic for 
legitimate updates and whatnot, the appliance is actually going out to and 
downloading content from the URLs embedded in some (but nowhere near all) 
inbound spam messages.  I haven't yet figured out any pattern to why it happens 
on some e-mails and not others.

I created a case with Barracuda this morning just to confirm that it is 
expected behavior and get an explanation of the logic behind it, but the tech I 
spoke to had never heard of this.  I sent him the packet cap and he said he 
would kick it upstairs and get back to me, but I haven't heard anything yet.

Anyone want to capture traffic from your Barracuda spam firewall on outbound 
port 80 and see if you see anything similar?

Thanks,
RS

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