Galen
Wed Jun 22 13:38:38 CDT 2005
In news:uL2uoB1dFHA.1136@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
John Dolinka <jrd7_nospam@cdc.gov> had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> MMP phones home through this address 66.221.53.1. Why is it phoning
> home? What is it phoning home? Reverse DNS says it's
> 1-53-221-66.cust.propagation.net. When I link to ip in browser
>
http://66.221.53.1 and the media player is running local content it
> causes it to disconnect, which is odd behaviour.
>
> Just curious,
>
> John Dolinka
I have no idea, I'm hoping it's benign but to get the ball rolling I grabbed
a copy of the page as best as I could using this:
http://www.iqauto.com/cgi-bin/ripper.pl
It turns out it's an ASF file at the other end.
So, I took a look at propagation.net and found an abuse address as well as
an acceptable use policy. So, back to Google I went... There are some
subdomain.propagation.net addresses interestingly enough.
This made me think...
I opened WMP 10....
I dug into my logs from my firewall:
2:34:47 PM wmplayer.exe OUT TCP localhost PROXY:8080 Windows Media Player
HTTP connection
2:34:47 PM wmplayer.exe OUT TCP localhost PROXY:8080 Windows Media Player
HTTP connection
2:34:47 PM wmplayer.exe OUT TCP localhost PROXY:8080 Windows Media Player
HTTP connection
2:34:47 PM wmplayer.exe OUT TCP localhost PROXY:8080 Windows Media Player
HTTP connection
2:34:47 PM wmplayer.exe OUT TCP localhost PROXY:8080 Windows Media Player
HTTP connection
2:34:44 PM wmplayer.exe OUT TCP localhost PROXY:8080 Windows Media Player
HTTP connection
2:34:44 PM wmplayer.exe OUT UDP localhost 1657 Allow LocalHost UDP
Connection
2:34:47 PM wmplayer.exe OUT TCP localhost PROXY:8080 Windows Media Player
HTTP connection
2:34:47 PM wmplayer.exe OUT TCP localhost PROXY:8080 Windows Media Player
HTTP connection
All of those were accounted for as ads and none of which was your address...
So, without futher ado, I suggest:
Malware Cleaning :
http://www.kgiii.info/windows/all/general/malwarefix.html
Galen
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