Connections when loading AO?

Hey guys, I have noticed this and it has been bothering me for a little while so maybe some of you vets can shed some light on the situation. I have looked into this situation so know that I am not just flying off the handle and posting wildly. =P Whenever I go to AO (just AO nothing else open no other connections), my browser initiates over 200 connections! I know many browsers will spawn multiple TCP connections(puh like at most 20) to sites in order to speed up loading the page, but over 200? Anyway, it is always to 3 servers. Their IPs are 63.146.109.212 (DNS says this is AO so I am alright with that), 96.16.83.172 (some virtual server on akamaitertechnologies.com which is also understandable if AO is using their services to speed up traffic), and 63.236.73.147 (DNS does not resolve o.O what the f!?). The last one I am the most worried about, any ideas on who that is? The fact that I open over 200 connections is also of concern, but I was wondering if anyone else can post their browser's network stats when they log into AO so I can quell(or justify) some paranoia >.< I would be worried about spyware if the connections were that high upon start up of the browser because it would be very clear that something is piggy backing on my browser (and is very elusive), but no this is just visiting AO. It just gets curiouser and curiouser too. I am relatively concerned since this PC is my work's PC (which friggen makes me run windows mumble mumble mumble grumble mumble grumble mumble) but I have ran some boot time scans, looked through popular areas where viruses and spyware hide/leave their tracks and found nothing very conclusive (the suspicions I have I mostly just figure was windows being the overly complex operating system it is) with the exception of upon visiting AO, I find that I have downloaded a file to a weird location, as in NOT the default download location (the file has something to deal with the DB sqllite the file is called download.sqllite and is saved within some hidden directories) and also multple IE temp files (This is VERY weird since I don't USE IE) two of which are labeled as APIs >.> Can anyone else show me what goes on when they connect to AO? Better yet, can anyone offer any sage wisdom that would quell my fears and suspicions or maybe validate them? Is AO running aggressive scripts? It wouldn't make much sense since I have scripts disabled, but there could be some kind of exploit that changes that though >.< I don't know, what do you guys think?

EDIT: Another connection just started! o.O 172.194.33.104 resolves to ipt.aol.com.... I haven't traversed any other pages either

There normal.

AO is owned by Quinn St, whom own Internet.com those connections are perfectly normal, the 1 that is timing out and not giving up any info is the IP that has the "anticode.com" data on it.

the other ones are fore advertisement purposes, ie down the bottom of the page there is a search feature, that is calling to that aol domain. ;)

forgot, that API's and sqllite are from the various advertisements, and .js around the site, like i mentioned AO is owned by Quinn St, whom primary objective is "Marketing" ie "Advertisements" so there is bound to be plenty of tracking cookie goodness appering ;)

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QuinStreet

A full-service online marketing services and technology company, specializing in direct marketing and sales and retail network services.

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General IP Information

Hostname:63.236.73.147
ISP:Qwest Communications
Organization:Jupitermedia Corp.
Proxy:None detected
Type:Corporate
Assignment:Static IP
Blacklist:Services:
Web Server (1 or more domains)

Jupitermedia are the previous owners of AO.

If you click on either of the links it will take you to the lookup site that I used.

Thanks guys. My fears are slightly calmed =P

EDIT: heh, so I kinda flipped out over this stuff and just started locking everything down, reformatted, etc. etc. When I got my browser up and running, I locked it down and now and every IP address that comes from this site that isn't AO mains is now blocked >.< Pretty cool though, Completely advertisement free!

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Originally Posted by SnugglesTheBear

Thanks guys. My fears are slightly calmed =P

EDIT: heh, so I kinda flipped out over this stuff and just started locking everything down, reformatted, etc. etc. When I got my browser up and running, I locked it down and now and every IP address that comes from this site that isn't AO mains is now blocked >.< Pretty cool though, Completely advertisement free!

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Umm, you like, formatted a machine, from that? =o

Paranoid much?

You have no idea gore >.<

I've seen people on LSD more rational than that man lol.

Well, in my defense, there were also a lot of other things going screwy with my computer. My comp was sending way too many DNS requests to be kosher, figured it might be a DNS rebinding attack or something, and it was resolving web pages I wasn't requesting and my browser of all things were also issuing DNS queries, which was a very bad sign. Along with that, a lot of my network interfaces were being disconnected. I don't know, I am not usually that paranoid with systems I am more comfortable with, linux/bsd, but I find windows to be such a mess, it is hard for me to ascertain whether it is proper or malicious behavior >.<

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...................

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and it was resolving web pages I wasn't requesting

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We will accept that, provided you give us the URLs of the quality pr0n sites

:D:p:drink:

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Originally Posted by nihil

We will accept that, provided you give us the URLs of the quality pr0n sites

:D:p:drink:

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heh, you should read the article I posted about malware being more common on non-porn sites =P But on a more serious note, that is just the thing. I don't really go anywhere shady on my company's computer =P It was probably just firefox and windows being themselves (though I am still skeptical at best). The sites they were resolving were facebook, twitter and google. I don't really go on twitter so that is one that popped up as an issue. Does firefox inherently resolve these to caching purposes? Blech, it is all fixed now. It might have something to do with my companies network as well >.< They won't let me configure it, and the person who does configure it has no idea what he is doing :( but that is just politics.

hmm sounds like the idiots at my workplace. Half of them i swear don't have the credentials they claim they have...

how they got there job in here is beyond me, new management has screwed this place up 10 fold.. :argue:

Also those quality pr0n links are were??? ;)

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Originally Posted by HYBR|D

Also those quality pr0n links are were??? ;)

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It's like you guys want me banned >.>

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Originally Posted by SnugglesTheBear

It's like you guys want me banned >.>

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Only if the quality sucks. Besides, the three people total who could ban you, are Joe, Nihil, and myself. ;)

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Originally Posted by gore

Only if the quality sucks.

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heh, well the link I was thinking about posting isn't exactly for the faint of heart and would probably make even the most stalwart of internet goers cringe >.<

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Originally Posted by SnugglesTheBear

heh, well the link I was thinking about posting isn't exactly for the faint of heart and would probably make even the most stalwart of internet goers cringe >.<

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My name is gore. It's not political, which leaves only ONE definition. I'm not shocked easy.

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Originally Posted by gore

My name is gore. It's not political, which leaves only ONE definition. I'm not shocked easy.

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I will send you the link via a medium that isn't a public forum, but you might have already seen it honestly, which would be disappointing because of all this hype =P

Lol, you don't have to send anything. I was personally messing with you. I wouldn't have banned you though if you did post it, because you kind of had two mods eggin you on lol.

.... send me the damm link please!

Cider you don't want to see it... Once seen it cannot be undone.. The "Stuff" Snuggles looks at will give you nightmares amongst other things...

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Originally Posted by HYBR|D

Cider you don't want to see it... Once seen it cannot be undone.. The "Stuff" Snuggles looks at will give you nightmares amongst other things...

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It is quite disturbing >.< If you really want the link though Cider, I will send it.