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Re: [opensuse] Firefox phones home/Google
  • From: Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:30:27 -0500
  • Message-id: <200701310830.28592.zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 08:26, 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
> E....a@.@...
>
> j..L
> B...8"..%.g..P.......GET
> http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?client=navclient-auto-ffox2.0.0.2p

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^'

Do you have the website checker on? The one that looks for fake sites?

Nick
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