On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:26:16PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi list. > > > Just when I wanted to debug a web problem, I saw tcpdump > showing Firefox making silent requests to Google. (wtf at this point!) > To reproduce: Open a random webpage (preferably one that does not > reference external content, e.g. http://jengelh.hopto.org/ ; local > files don't trigger it) > > > 14:23:03.581788 IP 10.10.106.161.50386 > 134.76.10.66.3128: P 1:691(690) > ack 1 win 5840 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@... > > j..L > B...8"..%.g..P.......GET > http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?client=navclient-auto-ffox2.0.0.2pre&mozver=1.8.1.2pre-2006102300&version=goog-white-domain:1:19,goog-white-url:1:371,goog-black-url:1:8400,goog-black-enchash:1:17514 > HTTP/1.1 > Host: sb.google.com > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) > Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.1-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.2pre > Accept: > text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 > Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate > Accept-Charset: UTF-8,* > Keep-Alive: 300 > Proxy-Connection: keep-alive > Cookie: > PREF=ID=b81b7fa78ae17cf1:TM=1168225067:LM=1168225067:S=xIIiZGyQbydqdfSG > > > Can I _please_ get information why there's spyware like this in Firefox? > Added by SUSE? > > (I don't have the Google Toolbar installed, which, in itself, already > transmits data unwanted, leading to congestion on modem lines.)
We did not add this code. I suspect the anti phishing filter or similar. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
