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Periodically I run netstat, today I found some very strange things that concerned me greatly.
I keep seeing a voice.re2.yahoo.com. Even when voice in yahoo is not being used. In fact its never used. My microphones are not even hooked up. Never have I seen this. What concerns me is every time I try to block it with NIS.. it changes ports again so the one I blocked is not the one it is connected to .
Could someone please explain this to me?
I am sending screenshots of the three I am talking about and maybe someone could explain it to me . I would appreciate any help with this matter.
Carrie
https://bigblueball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27055#post150290 lists a way to disable voice chat.
http://lists.bleedingsnort.com/pipermail/bleeding-sigs/2005-May/000382.html Voice chat or “SIP traffic…” is run on “…tcp [ports] 5060-5061…” the best you can do is block access to them.
all the following “206.190.32.0 – 206.190.63.255” according to http://dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=206.190.50.154 (206.190.50.154 = sip16.voice.re2.yahoo.com) are owned by yahoo. if you want to be drastic, block access to all thoose. should solve your problem, but may bring about others (yahoo messenger may not be able to connect.)
you also may want to check out your hosts file (start run>> notepad %windir%system32driversetchosts) to make sure nothing suspicous is in there.
next time you run netstat you may want to type “netstat -ano”. this way you can see what process is connecting to what ip instead of just seeing a listing of hosts and ports. you can make sure nothing on your system (usually the hosts file) is pointing sip16.voice.re2.yahoo.com to some random ip.
i don’t think you should worry. i’m sure the yahoo developers only wanted people to be able to use voice chat over restrictive firewalls (that’s probably why it changes ports). if you are really scared, and don’t want connections to yahoo voice/”SIP” servers, switch clients. Gaim is great. i am 100% sure (i just checked) it doesn’t connect to any of the above servers (on default).
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