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I was a former @home high speed internet customer before the transistion to Comcast high speed internet. ONe strange thing i notice about the comcast DHCP ip setup they have a IP lease set to 7 days after logging into the new network or after (booting your PC) SO i have maintained the same IP since DHCP was installed. Would it not be more effective for them to be static instead of a long term lease thru DHCP? As far as installing the comcast software, I never did it and my cable is running fine. So if it is indeed what Sarah T claims it to be, it is an easily avoidable situation-Just don't install it! Nobody Somewhere >From: "Nil Fiat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: New Comcast software a security risk? >Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:59:35 -0500 > >Hey yo: > >As many of you know, what used to be AT&T@Home (in MI) has become >Comcast Cable, which recently did some merger thing with the >Excite people, resulting in everybody having to do a bunch of >settings and system changes to keep their cable (modem) access. > >My question is about the "comcast support software" the company >had everybody install. Not only was it annoying to run another >flippin' TSR just to have access, but as soon as I installed the >software my Firewall (Tiny) got *flooded* with outgoing TCP >requests. There were two kinds--one from the Comcast Support >Software I'd installed, and another one from a program I didn't >recognize, the name of which didn't make sense but had the >word "Customer" in it. Denying the "customer" one didn't seem to >interrupt my access (except for flooding my logs), but denying the >Comcast Support one did--and the attempts were nearly constant. I >called these people (for the umteenth time; they also disabled >remote mail access and screwed up my email addy when they did the >merger, so we'd been fighting anyway) and they blew me off. I >told them they had to tell me what those connections were, and >they quite frankly said no, they didn't (is that true?). A week >later when I got notice in the mail that the price of my "service" >was going up, I cancelled it; but I have friends still using it, >and they want to know if there's a way to find out if Comcast is >collecting information from their computer or about their net >use. I told them to whois the IP that it was trying to connect to >(my logs got purged so I don't have it anymore), and they tell me >that all they can find out is that it belongs to Comcast. > >Any of you ladies and gentlemen affected by this, or have more >information, I'd love to hear it. Also, if anybody is digging >into this problem and would like help, I'll volunteer. > >Peace & Privacy, >Sara T. > >________________________________________________________________ >Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.com > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
