Google calling home from my system, what is the package?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Use "netstat --protocol inet" to see what ports at your end are being
> used for this. Copy the "Local Address" field into "lsof -i
> @<address>" to see what process is doing it.

You might be able to find out all you need with the netstat command, by
itself, simply by adding some more parameters.

e.g. netstat -etuvp

(extended results for tcp & udp traffic, more verbose, & show the
processes involved)

Chances are that the original poster is using the Firefox web browser,
and has the anti-scamming feature enabled that queries Google about the
pages that they're looking up.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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