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  1. October 10th, 2002, 10:21 PM #1
    Blitz
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    Whats connected to my computer!??

    When I clicked on my dialup shortcut today to log into the net, it took a long time to open up the connection window. I thought the computer had hung, but on ctrl alt del, I saw some processes disappear, then the connection window appeared.
    I connected and ran netstat, which shows a foriegn connection to
    ads.web.aol.com:http what is this?
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  2. October 10th, 2002, 10:42 PM #2
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    Hmm, just realise that I may have had ICQ open when I did the netstat. This might explain it ..
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  3. October 12th, 2002, 08:07 PM #3
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    Anything that connects to ads.whatever.com needs to die.

    Check out AdAware if you are worried about other programs running. http://www.lavasoft.de
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