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
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> 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
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> has
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>>>>found to route all internet traffic though, and create records of
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> internet
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>>>>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 ->
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> "'s)
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>>>>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
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> akamai)
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>>>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)
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> in
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>>>the Privacy/Site section and then enter the akamai sites in the blocked
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> zone
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>>>under firewall.
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>>>
>>
>>All I get is my news server and the search server which is I think by
>>default Google.
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>
>
> 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

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