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Netscape sending unauthorized stuff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricardo Nassif)
Mon Mar 13 17:45:57 1995
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:47:08 -0500
From: Ricardo Nassif <rn@moe.shore.net>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199503131248.NAA12422@mvmampc66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Reply-To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Thomas> Rumour has it that netscape periodically connects to a
Thomas> server at mcom.com.
[A totally unscientific experience follows]
Ah... If you mean v.1.1b, yes, it acts weird sometimes. Every once in
a while it comes out of the cold, as of by enchantment (sp), and
starts doing something. This "something" is accessing another
"something" becouse the modem leds go wild for a few seconds. Then it
returns to do being quite. I've looked at the ~/.netscape-cache dir
for some clue with no success.
Thomas> Has anybody run a netscape under strace yet, to find out
Thomas> what kind of data it sends?
No.
Thomas> If there's any truth to this matter, netscape should be
Thomas> banned for installing a potential trojan horse.
Yes.
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