[pchelpers] Re: [pchelpers]

Believe it or not I understand what you mean by background hosting, like
AT&T renting its lines to other phone companies, sort of.
There is no discernible pattern to the activity so far. At first I just
thought they were like the other ad sites like fastclick or valueclick.
Those sites show on my traffic log every time I go to certain webpages, like
pogo.com, for instance. But the browser has been trying to go to these sites
without any activity on my part. It just started a couple of days ago. I've
been monitoring my traffic for many months now and this activity is
definitely new. What's more the activity stopped as soon as I posted the
question about it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott McNay" <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
To: "George T. Cox" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 5:30 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: [pchelpers]


>
> Hi George,
>
> Monday, October 11, 2004, 1:40:26 PM, you wrote:
>
> GTC> My IE keeps trying to contact a site called i.i.com.com or
> GTC> ii.com.com and I haven't been able to make it stop or figure
> GTC> anything out about this site. Google says there is no such site
> GTC> yet some of the results I got have it listed. The thing I'm most
> GTC> interested in is making IE stop trying to go there. I've checked
> GTC> my system for malware using spybot, adaware, A-squared,
> GTC> hijackthis!, AVG, and trend micro and I've come up with nothing.
> GTC> It also keeps trying to get to akamaitech.net and a couple of
> GTC> other sites. This is happening without my having surfed to any
> GTC> webpages. Anybody got any ideas?
>
> com.com is the background site for cnet.com / zdnet.com / download.com
> / etc. akamai is a provider that is used as background hosting for a
> large number of companies, including Microsoft, if I recall correctly.
> If you download a file from Microsoft, it may actually come from
> Akamai, and the same for many images that may appear on the page.
>
> I'm using the word "background" because I can't really think of a
> better name for it.
>
> After you open IE, what do you do or not do that causes IE to try to
> access these sites?  Have you checked the default home page?
>
> --Scott.
>
>
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