"Lu Tze" <ID10T@ward14.com> wrote in message
news:bervui$soa$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> mto wrote:
> > "Lu Tze" <ID10T@ward14.com> wrote in message
> > news:bepdck$kjr$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> >
> >>mto wrote:
> >>
> >>>"John Smith" <assemblywizard10@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >>>news:3f011c4c@monitor.lanset.com...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I have been fighting to stop akamaitechnologies from communicating
with
> >
> > my
> >
> >>>>computer, unsuccessfully. Any site, if unable to be blocked, is a
MAJOR
> >>>>break in any security one can have.
> >>>>
> >>>>Entries entered into the windows hosts file seems incapable of
blocking
> >>>>access, as is proxomitron and junkbuster, or even a personal firewall.
> >>>>
> >>>>Rumors abound that this is in fact some method the fbi or other agency
> >
> > has
> >
> >>>>found to route all internet traffic though, and create records of
> >
> > internet
> >
> >>>>activity... I am undecided on this point...
> >>>>
> >>>>However, in my opinion, it seems that until this hole is blocked,
anyone
> >>>>using the internet should consider their security to have been
> >>>>compromised...
> >>>>
> >>>>One method of seeing how easily akamaitechnologies is able to bypass
any
> >>>>security measure you can devise is as follows:
> >>>>
> >>>>1) access http://www.hotbot.com
> >>>>2) do a search using any search term
> >>>>3) drop to a dos prompt and type "netstat -a" (without the quotes ->
> >
> > "'s)
> >
> >>>>4) in the list of connections to your computer will see something
like:
> >>>>a66-81-235-70.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
> >>>>
> >>>>If anyone can block akamaitechnologies(also adamaitechnologies or
> >
> > akamai)
> >
> >>>I
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>would love to hear from them...
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks in advance,
> >>>>warmest regards,
> >>>>John Smith
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I've completely blocked akamai rather successfully - without losing any
> >>>"services" - in ZA Pro simply block everything (including all scripts)
> >
> > in
> >
> >>>the Privacy/Site section and then enter the akamai sites in the blocked
> >
> > zone
> >
> >>>under firewall.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>All I get is my news server and the search server which is I think by
> >>default Google.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Do you mean that this is all you get after blocking akamai and that you
> > cannot see anything except your newserver and google? Or do you mean
those
> > are the only services that you use anyway?
> >
> >
> My apologies. I, upon re-reading that which I had writ, could make
> neither head nor tail of it myself.
> What I meant was that when I tried to recreate the event you described,
> upon doing a look up in netstat, with Hotbot open in the browser I had
> no reference to Akamai at all. I can only imagine that a script you are
> seeing on your machine is Akamai driven but between my host file/spybot
> and spywareblaster then this IP for Akamai is not making in through.
>
> Lu Tze
>

Let's see, it was John who described the test, not me, but just for the heck
of it I went and did it myself - twice, once with and once without cookies
(which I have set to expire immediately upon receipt. No akamai here
either. I suspect that something is fishy with John's security settings.