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November 22nd, 2002, 04:22 PM
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connection to AOL every half hour/why?
I don't use AOL with the exception of instant messenger. I installed WallWatcher yesterday and brought it up before I went to bed last night and did not have instant messenger running. This morning I'm looking at the log and I have two outbound connections one minute apart every 30 minutes all night long and continuing today. The remote name shows as aim-charts.pf.aol.com in the log. The IP was 205.188.136.217 for most of the night and a whois gives quotewebvip-d01.blue.aol.com. The IP changed this morning to 64.12.185.89 but everything else is the same. As I'm writing this it has gone back to the other IP. Instant Messenger has permissions through zone alarm to send something outbound. Both of these IP's belong to AOL but tracert's to them dont' finish. Instant messenger doesn't run on startup on my machine and so there shouldn't be anything trying to help me know if I'm connected to the internet or not running. If it is, it doesn't show anywhere. May be an easy answer but I can't find it. I don't have any interest in feeding AOL information but if thats what it is I'm sure it would be widely publicized. I appreciate any help, ugly remarks about my using instant messenger, ideas, guesses, nail on the head answers, etc. It is interesting to note that when I connect to im then there is an outbound to 64.12.174.185 which is pretty close to the other one and that one appears to be an ad's server. Anyhow, thanks for your help.
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