Question about "daytime"

[mto]

"Jay T. Blocksom" <usenet01+SPAMBLOCK@appropriate-tech.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:04:01 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "mto"
> <nobody@dontsendmeanyspam.thanks> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > Don't know about NT 2000 but XP checks the time of the system clock
about
> > weekly. Gives two choices - microsoft and the national clock.
> [snip]
>
> But surely, it doesn't use the stone-age "Daytime" service for this.
>
> --

No clue what service it uses. Mine is set to time.nist.gov. Just giving
Capps an explanation as to why his machine is constantly trying to fetch the
time from MS.

[Capps]

Win2k, Daytime queries have stopped.

My Win2k box was generating TCP port 13 (Daytime) requests to
Microsoft.net. I blocked all inbound and outbound traffic on port
13, at the firewall. (With Reject) That caused the Win2k box to
begin retrying the Daytime requests very rapidly, and rotating
across multiple servers. So... I updated the firewall rules to just
DROP all port 13 traffic. That slowed the queries from the Win2k
box. But, lo and behold, several days have passed and guess what,
the Win2k box is no longer generating any daytime queries at all.
Hmmm..... something magical ? or some spyware that just got
tired of retrying ? Can't say for sure, but at least the annoying
traffic has stopped.

Enjoy,
Don Capps

"mto" <nobody@dontsendmeanyspam.thanks> wrote in message
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>
> "Jay T. Blocksom" <usenet01+SPAMBLOCK@appropriate-tech.net> wrote in
message
> news:mk2rjvoljvig4nql4sfanc5f1t4vuukeso@news.rcn.c om...
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:04:01 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "mto"
> > <nobody@dontsendmeanyspam.thanks> wrote:
> > >
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Don't know about NT 2000 but XP checks the time of the system clock
> about
> > > weekly. Gives two choices - microsoft and the national clock.
> > [snip]
> >
> > But surely, it doesn't use the stone-age "Daytime" service for this.
> >
> > --
>
> No clue what service it uses. Mine is set to time.nist.gov. Just giving
> Capps an explanation as to why his machine is constantly trying to fetch
the
> time from MS.
>
>

[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:17:44 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Capps"
<capps@iozone.org> wrote:
>
> Win2k, Daytime queries have stopped.
>
[snip]

> But, lo and behold, several days have passed and guess what,
> the Win2k box is no longer generating any daytime queries at all.
> Hmmm..... something magical ? or some spyware that just got
> tired of retrying ? Can't say for sure, but at least the annoying
> traffic has stopped.
>
[snip]

Weird.

Have you rebooted since this crap started? Made any other changes to the
system setup?

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
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usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


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